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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.

Rachel Carson

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.
RACHEL CARSON

Links Men Past
Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
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Dream Joy Quality Remember Song
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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Dangerousousousousous Death History Human Moments Time World
The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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Choice Ourselves Relationship Togetherness
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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Change Men Nature
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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Alive Children Discover Excitement Family Life Live Motivational Mystery World
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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Change Existence Life Ocean Science Sea
Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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Greatness Mystery Oneself
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
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Great Mother Mother Sea
The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
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Childhood Soil Years
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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Earth Day Fabric Of Life Men
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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Change Gratitude Motivational Myself See
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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Choices Men Thinking
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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Himself Life Nature Place Science World
I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to ‘know’ as to ‘feel’.
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Believe Children Parent
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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Enough Human Nature Ourselves Talk

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