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The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.

Rachel Carson

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.
RACHEL CARSON

Beautiful Believe Live Mind Myself Save Try World
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Change Existence Life Ocean Science Sea
Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
RACHEL CARSON

Future Myself Peace Silence
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
RACHEL CARSON

Beautiful Endurance Life Nature Strength
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Children Development Humanity Kind Life Nature
In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
RACHEL CARSON

Nature Space Spiritual Story
A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.
RACHEL CARSON

Beautiful Children Excitement Eyes Garden Vision Wonderful
The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.
RACHEL CARSON

Civilization Destroy Life Lose Right War
The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
RACHEL CARSON

Discipline Himself Learning Listening Writing
Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
RACHEL CARSON

Destruction Emotion Existence Humility Lust Wonderful
Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.
RACHEL CARSON

Alone Inspirational Life Mystery Nature Peace
The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth – soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.
RACHEL CARSON

Nation Nature Reality World
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?
RACHEL CARSON

Change Gratitude Motivational Myself See
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
RACHEL CARSON

Attention Destruction Focus Ourselves Taste
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Beautiful Herself Humility Nature Necessary Wonderful
[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.
RACHEL CARSON

End Hard Work Myself Possible Satisfaction Simplicity Writing

The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.

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The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.

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