When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself – the primeval meeting place of the elements of earth and water, a place of compromise and conflit and eternal change.
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.
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In nature nothing exists alone.
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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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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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[Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible. For me that usually means many, many revisions.
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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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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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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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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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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.
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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
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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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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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