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.
RACHEL CARSONWhy 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.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
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By suggestion and example, I believe children can be helped to hear the many voices about them. Take Time to listen and talk about the voices of the earth and what they mean-the majestic voice of thunder, the winds, the sound of surf or flowing streams.
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
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Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may glow with sheets of cold fire, while below schools of fish pour through the water like molten metal.
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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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There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life – we are never bored.
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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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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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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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One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, “What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?
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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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Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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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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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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Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
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