Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
RACHEL CARSONWe cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.
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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.
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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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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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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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The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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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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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.
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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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[Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible. For me that usually means many, many revisions.
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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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