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Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.

Rachel Carson

Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may glow with sheets of cold fire, while below schools of fish pour through the water like molten metal.
RACHEL CARSON

Autumn Material Ocean Science Sea
It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.
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Change Existence Life Ocean Science Sea
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
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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Beginning End Nature Ocean Praise Sea Time
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
Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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Beautiful See Wonderful Yourself
Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.
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Experience Live Ourselves Reality Science
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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Enough Human Nature Ourselves Talk
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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Change Life Protection Seek
[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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End Hard Work Myself Possible Satisfaction Simplicity Writing
In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.
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Age Difference Forget Men Need Survive Victim
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
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
Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any reason we find its presence undesirable or merely a matter of indifference, we may condemn it to destruction forthwith.
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Attitude Destruction Difference Oneself Ourselves See
It is not half so important to know as to feel.
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Feeling Important
To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
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Live Past Philosophy Present Promise Remember Understand

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