A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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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Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent. It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people.
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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.
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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.
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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.
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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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Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species — man — acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.
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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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Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
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Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any reason we find its presence undesirable or merely a matter of indifference, we may condemn it to destruction forthwith.
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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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