There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.
RACHEL CARSONThere is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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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 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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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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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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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
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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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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
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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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In nature nothing exists alone.
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For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.
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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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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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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.
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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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