Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
RACHEL CARSONWonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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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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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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Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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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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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
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There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life – we are never bored.
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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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Nowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect; each living thing is bound to its world by many threads, weaving the intricate design of the fabric of life.
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The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth – soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.
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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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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
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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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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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Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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