It is not half so important to know as to feel.
RACHEL CARSONIt is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
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Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.
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If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.
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As crude a weapon as a cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
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The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth – soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.
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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
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The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing life.
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It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.
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[Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible. For me that usually means many, many revisions.
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The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.
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