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 CARSONThere is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life – we are never bored.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.
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Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides.
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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth – soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.
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Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
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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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When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself – the primeval meeting place of the elements of earth and water, a place of compromise and conflit and eternal change.
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To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
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In nature nothing exists alone.
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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.
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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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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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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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