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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.

Rachel Carson

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
RACHEL CARSON

Attitude Control Nature
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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Design Life Live Nature Ocean Science World
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
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Great Mother Mother Sea
Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
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Destruction Emotion Existence Humility Lust Wonderful
There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.
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Creation Force Mystery Ocean
Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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Future Myself Peace Silence
I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
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Future Myself Past
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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Beautiful Children Excitement Eyes Garden Vision Wonderful
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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Beautiful Herself Humility Nature Necessary Wonderful
The most alarming of all man’s assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.
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Environment Man Material Nature Sea
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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Experience Live Ourselves Reality Science
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.
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Night Ocean Oneself Space Summer
In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
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Nature Space Spiritual Story
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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Believe Children Help Listening Myself Nature Time Voice
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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Civilization Destroy Life Lose Right War
We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven’t become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe.
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Enough Human Nature Ourselves Talk

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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