Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.
RACHEL CARSONThe question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life.
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The ‘control of nature’ is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.
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Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
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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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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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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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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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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
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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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In nature nothing exists alone.
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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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The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water.
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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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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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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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