Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
RACHEL CARSONA rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.
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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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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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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 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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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.
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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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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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The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
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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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Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
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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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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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