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.
RACHEL CARSONThe control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
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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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But most of all I shall remember the monarchs, that unhurried westward drift of one small winged form after another, each drawn by some invisible force.
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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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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
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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 every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
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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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The most alarming of all man’s assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.
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When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself – the primeval meeting place of the elements of earth and water, a place of compromise and conflit and eternal change.
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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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Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
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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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It is not half so important to know as to feel.
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