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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.

Rachel Carson

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.
RACHEL CARSON

Long Lying Progress
Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides.
RACHEL CARSON

Believe Environmental Poison
It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
RACHEL CARSON

Challenge Domination Price Right
The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water.
RACHEL CARSON

Land Long Sea
Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.
RACHEL CARSON

Environment Live Mystery Science Sea
It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.
RACHEL CARSON

Choices Men Thinking
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?
RACHEL CARSON

Acceptance Demand Goodness Lost Vision
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
RACHEL CARSON

Great Mother Mother Sea
A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
RACHEL CARSON

Nature Perfection Rain Time
Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land, now to the sea.
RACHEL CARSON

Boundary Change Nature Ocean Sea
We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life.
RACHEL CARSON

Civilization Important Life Man Ourselves True
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
RACHEL CARSON

Attention Destruction Focus Ourselves Taste
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.
RACHEL CARSON

Beautiful Herself Humility Nature Necessary Wonderful
The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
RACHEL CARSON

Childhood Soil Years
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
RACHEL CARSON

Alive Children Discover Excitement Family Life Live Motivational Mystery World
The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.
RACHEL CARSON

Fiction Literature Science

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