It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
RACHEL CARSONNowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect; each living thing is bound to its world by many threads, weaving the intricate design of the fabric of life.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
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In nature nothing exists alone.
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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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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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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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By 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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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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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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Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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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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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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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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