To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
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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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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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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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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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 a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.
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Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.
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One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, “What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?
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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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Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
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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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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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The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.
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Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.
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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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Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species — man — acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.
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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
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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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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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