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

Rachel Carson

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.
RACHEL CARSON

Believe Environmental Poison
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’.
RACHEL CARSON

Believe Children Parent
Those who love and free nature are never alone.
RACHEL CARSON

Environment Freedom Love Nature
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
RACHEL CARSON

Attention Destruction Focus Ourselves Taste
The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind – that, and anger at the senseless, brutish things that were being done. . . . Now I can believe I have at least helped a little.
RACHEL CARSON

Beautiful Believe Live Mind Myself Save Try World
A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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Beautiful Children Excitement World
I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
RACHEL CARSON

Future Myself Past
In nature nothing exists alone.
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Alone Existence Nature
As crude a weapon as a cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
RACHEL CARSON

Earth Day Fabric Of Life Men
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
Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
RACHEL CARSON

Dream Joy Quality Remember Song
Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
RACHEL CARSON

Future Myself Peace Silence
The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.
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Civilization Destroy Life Lose Right War
It is not half so important to know as to feel.
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Feeling Important
There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life – we are never bored.
RACHEL CARSON

Boredom Character Deal Life Oneself Quality Science
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Enough Human Nature Ourselves Talk

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