There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life – we are never bored.
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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The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing 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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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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The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
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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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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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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 Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.
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It is not half so important to know as to feel.
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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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I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life – past, present, and future.
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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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Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.
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