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’.
RACHEL CARSONThe 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.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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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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Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
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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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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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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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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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The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
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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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Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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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 ‘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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In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
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One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.
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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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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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