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.
RACHEL CARSONA rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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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’.
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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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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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It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.
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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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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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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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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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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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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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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent. It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people.
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It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.
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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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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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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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