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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.

Rachel Carson

The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
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Discipline Himself Learning Listening Writing
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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Children Development Humanity Kind Life Nature
The 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.
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Land Long Sea
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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Fiction Literature Science
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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End Environment Ourselves River Work
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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Nature Old World
In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
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Nature Space Spiritual Story
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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Boredom Character Deal Life Oneself Quality Science
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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Beautiful Herself Humility Nature Necessary Wonderful
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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Experience Live Ourselves Reality Science
The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing life.
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Himself Life Nature Place Science World
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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Alive Children Discover Excitement Family Life Live Motivational Mystery World
To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
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Live Past Philosophy Present Promise Remember Understand
Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides.
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Believe Environmental Poison
The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
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Beautiful Place Sea Strange
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Creation Force Mystery Ocean

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