One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, “What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?
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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I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to ‘know’ as to ‘feel’.
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
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I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life – past, present, and future.
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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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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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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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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 human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
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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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One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.
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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.
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For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future… Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time.
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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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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven’t become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe.
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