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.
RACHEL CARSONThose who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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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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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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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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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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I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
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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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Only as a child’s awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.
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Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.
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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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One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, “What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?
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Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
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For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
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The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
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