Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
RACHEL CARSONWhen we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself – the primeval meeting place of the elements of earth and water, a place of compromise and conflit and eternal change.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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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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Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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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 Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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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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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any reason we find its presence undesirable or merely a matter of indifference, we may condemn it to destruction forthwith.
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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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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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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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Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land, now to the sea.
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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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We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life.
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