For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future… Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time.
RACHEL CARSON[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.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
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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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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
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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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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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In nature nothing exists alone.
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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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Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides.
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It is not half so important to know as to feel.
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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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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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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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The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.
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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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