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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.

Rachel Carson

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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Land Long Sea
For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.
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Dangerousousousousous Death History Human Moments Time World
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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Change Gratitude Motivational Myself See
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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Enough Human Nature Ourselves Talk
Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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Greatness Mystery Oneself
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.
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Knowing People Speaks Out
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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Boredom Character Deal Life Oneself Quality Science
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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Attention Destruction Focus Ourselves Taste
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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Believe Environmental Poison
Only as a child’s awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.
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Children Development Humanity Kind Life Nature
In nature nothing exists alone.
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Alone Existence Nature
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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Civilization Important Life Man Ourselves True
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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Book Leaving Poetry Sea Truth Writing
I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life – past, present, and future.
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Environment History Myself Nature Past
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
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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Experience Live Ourselves Reality Science

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