Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent. It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people.
RACHEL CARSONWe cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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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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It is not half so important to know as to feel.
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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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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
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We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven’t become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe.
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
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It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.
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In nature nothing exists alone.
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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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I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to ‘know’ as to ‘feel’.
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By suggestion and example, I believe children can be helped to hear the many voices about them. Take Time to listen and talk about the voices of the earth and what they mean-the majestic voice of thunder, the winds, the sound of surf or flowing streams.
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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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I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
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