Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land, now to the sea.
RACHEL CARSONNature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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It is not half so important to know as to feel.
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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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Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.
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Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.
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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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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.
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Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.
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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
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Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
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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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