Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
RACHEL CARSONBut man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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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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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
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I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven’t become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe.
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The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
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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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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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The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.
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If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
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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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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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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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Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
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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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