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Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species — man — acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.

Rachel Carson

The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.
RACHEL CARSON

Civilization Destroy Life Lose Right War
I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life – past, present, and future.
RACHEL CARSON

Environment History Myself Nature Past
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Attention Destruction Focus Ourselves Taste
Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent. It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people.
RACHEL CARSON

Knowing People Speaks Out
In nature nothing exists alone.
RACHEL CARSON

Alone Existence Nature
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
RACHEL CARSON

Beautiful Endurance Life Nature Strength
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Links Men Past
Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we’re challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves.
RACHEL CARSON

Believe Challenge Maturity Myself Nature Ourselves Thinking True
Nowhere 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.
RACHEL CARSON

Design Life Live Nature Ocean Science World
The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
RACHEL CARSON

Discipline Himself Learning Listening Writing
Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land, now to the sea.
RACHEL CARSON

Boundary Change Nature Ocean Sea
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
RACHEL CARSON

Beginning One Liner
The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth – soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.
RACHEL CARSON

Nation Nature Reality World
To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
RACHEL CARSON

Live Past Philosophy Present Promise Remember Understand
Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
RACHEL CARSON

Appearance Choice Herself Nature Reward
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Age Born Control Existence Men Nature Philosophy

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