The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.
RACHEL CARSONIn 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.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
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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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Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may glow with sheets of cold fire, while below schools of fish pour through the water like molten metal.
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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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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
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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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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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It is not half so important to know as to feel.
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I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life – past, present, and future.
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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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The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
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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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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
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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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Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
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