The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
RACHEL CARSONOne summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.
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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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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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One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.
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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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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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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.
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Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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