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.
RACHEL CARSONThe 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.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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It is not half so important to know as to feel.
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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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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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There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.
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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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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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The ‘control of nature’ is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.
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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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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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There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life – we are never bored.
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Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
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Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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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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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
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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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