Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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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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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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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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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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.
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Nowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect; each living thing is bound to its world by many threads, weaving the intricate design of the fabric of life.
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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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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?
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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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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.
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For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.
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Only as a child’s awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.
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Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we’re challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves.
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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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When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself – the primeval meeting place of the elements of earth and water, a place of compromise and conflit and eternal change.
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