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.
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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I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life – past, present, and future.
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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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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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In nature nothing exists alone.
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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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It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.
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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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Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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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.
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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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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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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 ‘control of nature’ is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.
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It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.
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