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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.

Rachel Carson

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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Environment Live Mystery Science Sea
The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
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Beautiful Place Sea Strange
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
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
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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Beginning End Nature Ocean Praise Sea Time
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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Beautiful Believe Live Mind Myself Save Try World
Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
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Acceptance Demand Goodness Lost Vision
To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
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Live Past Philosophy Present Promise Remember Understand
It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.
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Choices Men Thinking
Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we’re challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves.
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Believe Challenge Maturity Myself Nature Ourselves Thinking True
It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
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Challenge Domination Price Right
In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.
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Age Difference Forget Men Need Survive Victim
I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to ‘know’ as to ‘feel’.
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Believe Children Parent
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
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Beautiful Endurance Life Nature Strength
When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself – the primeval meeting place of the elements of earth and water, a place of compromise and conflit and eternal change.
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Nature Old World
The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.
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Fiction Literature Science

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