Those who love and free nature are never alone.
RACHEL CARSONBy suggestion and example, I believe children can be helped to hear the many voices about them. Take Time to listen and talk about the voices of the earth and what they mean-the majestic voice of thunder, the winds, the sound of surf or flowing streams.
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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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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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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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The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
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In nature nothing exists alone.
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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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Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.
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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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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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For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future… Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time.
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To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
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It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.
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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.
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