Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.
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 discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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Nowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect; each living thing is bound to its world by many threads, weaving the intricate design of the fabric of life.
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Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
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The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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[Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible. For me that usually means many, many revisions.
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Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we’re challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves.
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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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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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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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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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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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Only as a child’s awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.
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