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 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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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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Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
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I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life – past, present, and future.
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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 real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth – soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.
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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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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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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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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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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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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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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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To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
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The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
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