Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.
RACHEL CARSONAs crude a weapon as a cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
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I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life – past, present, and future.
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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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The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing life.
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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 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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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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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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The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind – that, and anger at the senseless, brutish things that were being done. . . . Now I can believe I have at least helped a little.
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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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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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The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
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Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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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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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 control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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