Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
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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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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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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To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
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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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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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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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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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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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The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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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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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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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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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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Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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