Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.
RACHEL CARSONWe 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.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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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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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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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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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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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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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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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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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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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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I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.
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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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