A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
RACHEL CARSONWe cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water.
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
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Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we’re challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves.
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The most alarming of all man’s assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.
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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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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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Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
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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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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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