Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent. It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people.
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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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 years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
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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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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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One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, “What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?
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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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In nature nothing exists alone.
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There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life – we are never bored.
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Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
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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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One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.
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Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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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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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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