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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.

Rachel Carson

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
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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Night Ocean Oneself Space Summer
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
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Beautiful Endurance Life Nature Strength
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Nature Old World
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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Alone Inspirational Life Mystery Nature Peace
In nature nothing exists alone.
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Alone Existence Nature
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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Age Difference Forget Men Need Survive Victim
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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Autumn Material Ocean Science Sea
We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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Heart Life Peace
To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
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Live Past Philosophy Present Promise Remember Understand
Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
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Appearance Choice Herself Nature Reward
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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Beginning End Nature Ocean Praise Sea Time
Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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Beautiful See Wonderful Yourself
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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Attitude Destruction Difference Oneself Ourselves See
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
The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
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Childhood Soil Years

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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