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Rachel Carson

[Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible. For me that usually means many, many revisions.
RACHEL CARSON

End Hard Work Myself Possible Satisfaction Simplicity Writing
Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.
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End Environment Ourselves River Work
But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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Deep Himself Inspirational Man Motivational War
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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Beautiful Children Excitement Eyes Garden Vision Wonderful
Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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Future Myself Peace Silence
To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
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Live Past Philosophy Present Promise Remember Understand
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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Change Life Protection Seek
Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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Environment Freedom Love Nature
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
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Great Mother Mother Sea
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
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.
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Beautiful Believe Live Mind Myself Save Try World
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.
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Nature Old World
The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing life.
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Himself Life Nature Place Science World
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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Acceptance Demand Goodness Lost Vision
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
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 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
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
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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Healing Nature Peace Wild
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
Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species — man — acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.
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Change Men Nature
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.
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Boundary Change Nature Ocean Sea
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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Environment Live Mystery Science Sea
Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any reason we find its presence undesirable or merely a matter of indifference, we may condemn it to destruction forthwith.
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Attitude Destruction Difference Oneself Ourselves See
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
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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Believe Challenge Maturity Myself Nature Ourselves Thinking True
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

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