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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

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
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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Healing Nature Peace Wild
Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
RACHEL CARSON

Beautiful See Wonderful Yourself
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’.
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Believe Children Parent
Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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Environment Freedom Love Nature
In nature nothing exists alone.
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Alone Existence Nature
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
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
In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
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Nature Space Spiritual Story
For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future… Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time.
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Links Men Past
Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.
RACHEL CARSON

Environment Live Mystery Science Sea
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
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Great Mother Mother Sea
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
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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Discipline Himself Learning Listening Writing
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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Children Development Humanity Kind Life Nature
The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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Choice Ourselves Relationship Togetherness

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