Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
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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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.
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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.
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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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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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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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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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There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.
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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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If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.
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The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing life.
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The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
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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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Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we’re challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves.
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Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
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