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 CARSONThere 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.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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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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The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind – that, and anger at the senseless, brutish things that were being done. . . . Now I can believe I have at least helped a little.
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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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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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The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
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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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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
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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.
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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.
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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
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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.
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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.
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