One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.
RACHEL CARSONIt 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.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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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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To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
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The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
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Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any reason we find its presence undesirable or merely a matter of indifference, we may condemn it to destruction forthwith.
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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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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 real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth – soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.
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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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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.
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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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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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