Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.
RACHEL CARSONOne 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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To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
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By suggestion and example, I believe children can be helped to hear the many voices about them. Take Time to listen and talk about the voices of the earth and what they mean-the majestic voice of thunder, the winds, the sound of surf or flowing streams.
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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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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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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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[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 road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.
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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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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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I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
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Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
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For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.
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Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land, now to the sea.
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Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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