The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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 beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind – that, and anger at the senseless, brutish things that were being done. . . . Now I can believe I have at least helped a little.
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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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To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
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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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The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.
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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.
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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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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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There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life – we are never bored.
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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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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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The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
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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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I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life – past, present, and future.
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