In nature nothing exists alone.
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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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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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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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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The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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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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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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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 more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
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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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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 discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
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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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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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The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth – soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.
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