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 CARSONThose who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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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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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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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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Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to ‘know’ as to ‘feel’.
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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 years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
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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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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.
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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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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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The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
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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.
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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.
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