Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
RACHEL CARSON
I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life – past, present, and future.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
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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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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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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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The 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.
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Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.
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The most alarming of all man’s assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.
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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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Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
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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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It is not half so important to know as to feel.
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In nature nothing exists alone.
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Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
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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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