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There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life – we are never bored.

Rachel Carson

It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
RACHEL CARSON

Challenge Domination Price Right
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
RACHEL CARSON

Beginning One Liner
The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
RACHEL CARSON

Attitude Control Nature
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Age Born Control Existence Men Nature Philosophy
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’.
RACHEL CARSON

Believe Children Parent
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Change Men Nature
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
Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land, now to the sea.
RACHEL CARSON

Boundary Change Nature Ocean Sea
There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life – we are never bored.
RACHEL CARSON

Boredom Character Deal Life Oneself Quality Science
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
One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.
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Night Ocean Oneself Space Summer
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

Fiction Literature Science
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
[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
I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
RACHEL CARSON

Future Myself Past
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

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