We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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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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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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 Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.
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By suggestion and example, I believe children can be helped to hear the many voices about them. Take Time to listen and talk about the voices of the earth and what they mean-the majestic voice of thunder, the winds, the sound of surf or flowing streams.
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As crude a weapon as a cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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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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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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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
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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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It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.
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