Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species — man — acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.
RACHEL CARSONThere is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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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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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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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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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth – soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.
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But most of all I shall remember the monarchs, that unhurried westward drift of one small winged form after another, each drawn by some invisible force.
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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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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent. It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people.
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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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I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life – past, present, and future.
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The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water.
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To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
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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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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
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