But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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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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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In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.
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Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
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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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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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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
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Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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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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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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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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Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.
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Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any reason we find its presence undesirable or merely a matter of indifference, we may condemn it to destruction forthwith.
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Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land, now to the sea.
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
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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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In nature nothing exists alone.
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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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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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We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life.
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The ‘control of nature’ is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.
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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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By suggestion and example, I believe children can be helped to hear the many voices about them. Take Time to listen and talk about the voices of the earth and what they mean-the majestic voice of thunder, the winds, the sound of surf or flowing streams.
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.
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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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