As crude a weapon as a cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric 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 road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.
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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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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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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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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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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
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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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Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
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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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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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The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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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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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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