In nature nothing exists 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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It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.
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Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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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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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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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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The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
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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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Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
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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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It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.
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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
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The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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