It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
RACHEL CARSONThe years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
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In nature nothing exists alone.
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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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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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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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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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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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The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
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Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.
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Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may glow with sheets of cold fire, while below schools of fish pour through the water like molten metal.
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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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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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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.
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