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Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?

Rachel Carson

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.
RACHEL CARSON

Long Lying Progress
I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to ‘know’ as to ‘feel’.
RACHEL CARSON

Believe Children Parent
When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself – the primeval meeting place of the elements of earth and water, a place of compromise and conflit and eternal change.
RACHEL CARSON

Nature Old World
The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
RACHEL CARSON

Beautiful Place Sea Strange
It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
RACHEL CARSON

Challenge Domination Price Right
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 CARSON

Knowing People Speaks Out
In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.
RACHEL CARSON

Age Difference Forget Men Need Survive Victim
The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
RACHEL CARSON

Discipline Himself Learning Listening Writing
There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life – we are never bored.
RACHEL CARSON

Boredom Character Deal Life Oneself Quality Science
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Design Life Live Nature Ocean Science World
The most alarming of all man’s assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.
RACHEL CARSON

Environment Man Material Nature Sea
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Age Born Control Existence Men Nature Philosophy
Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
RACHEL CARSON

Destruction Emotion Existence Humility Lust Wonderful
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Dangerousousousousous Death History Human Moments Time World
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Beautiful Believe Live Mind Myself Save Try World
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Land Long Sea

Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?

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Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?

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