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.
RACHEL CARSONConservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
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Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.
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[Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible. For me that usually means many, many revisions.
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Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any reason we find its presence undesirable or merely a matter of indifference, we may condemn it to destruction forthwith.
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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.
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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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It is not half so important to know as to feel.
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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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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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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.
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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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To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
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Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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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.
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