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The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

Rachel Carson

The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
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Childhood Soil Years
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
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Beginning One Liner
In nature nothing exists alone.
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Alone Existence Nature
We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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Heart Life Peace
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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End Environment Ourselves River Work
Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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Greatness Mystery Oneself
As crude a weapon as a cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
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Earth Day Fabric Of Life Men
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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Healing Nature Peace Wild
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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Believe Children Help Listening Myself Nature Time Voice
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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Change Men Nature
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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Civilization Destroy Life Lose Right War
Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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Beautiful See Wonderful Yourself
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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Age Born Control Existence Men Nature Philosophy
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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Beautiful Herself Humility Nature Necessary Wonderful
Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
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Dream Joy Quality Remember Song
Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
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Destruction Emotion Existence Humility Lust Wonderful

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