I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
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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In nature nothing exists alone.
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[Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible. For me that usually means many, many revisions.
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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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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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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
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But most of all I shall remember the monarchs, that unhurried westward drift of one small winged form after another, each drawn by some invisible force.
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Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.
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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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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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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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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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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 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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Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides.
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