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.
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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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent. It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people.
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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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Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.
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Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
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The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
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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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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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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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Our 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.
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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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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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.
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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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