We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
RACHEL CARSONLike the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
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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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It is not half so important to know as to feel.
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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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I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
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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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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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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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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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There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.
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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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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
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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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Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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