The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water.
RACHEL CARSONKnowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
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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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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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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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Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.
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I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to ‘know’ as to ‘feel’.
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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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Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
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We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven’t become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe.
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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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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.
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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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