Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
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.
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For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future… Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time.
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Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may glow with sheets of cold fire, while below schools of fish pour through the water like molten metal.
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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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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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Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
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The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
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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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It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.
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In nature nothing exists alone.
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As crude a weapon as a cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
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It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.
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Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
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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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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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