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 CARSONNature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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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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In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
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It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.
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Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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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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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life – past, present, and future.
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
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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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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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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’.
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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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Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
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