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 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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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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Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land, now to the sea.
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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life.
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As crude a weapon as a cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
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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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Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides.
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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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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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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.
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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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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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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
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