Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.
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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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.
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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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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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I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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As crude a weapon as a cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
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The ‘control of nature’ is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.
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Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.
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Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.
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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
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Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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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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Nowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect; each living thing is bound to its world by many threads, weaving the intricate design of the fabric of life.
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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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