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There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.

Rachel Carson

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.
RACHEL CARSON

Land Long Sea
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
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
In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.
RACHEL CARSON

Age Difference Forget Men Need Survive Victim
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
It is not half so important to know as to feel.
RACHEL CARSON

Feeling Important
The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
RACHEL CARSON

Childhood Soil Years
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
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
RACHEL CARSON

Beginning One Liner
The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.
RACHEL CARSON

Fiction Literature Science
Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.
RACHEL CARSON

Experience Live Ourselves Reality Science
But most of all I shall remember the monarchs, that unhurried westward drift of one small winged form after another, each drawn by some invisible force.
RACHEL CARSON

Form Invisible Remember
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Enough Human Nature Ourselves Talk
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Children Development Humanity Kind Life Nature
Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
RACHEL CARSON

Dream Joy Quality Remember Song
As crude a weapon as a cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
RACHEL CARSON

Earth Day Fabric Of Life Men

There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.

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