[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.
RACHEL CARSONOur 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.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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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 cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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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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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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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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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
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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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Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.
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It is not half so important to know as to feel.
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.
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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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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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The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
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If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.
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