Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.
RACHEL CARSONA child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.
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The ‘control of nature’ is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.
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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
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It is not half so important to know as to feel.
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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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Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
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If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
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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 edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
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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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The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water.
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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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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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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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