Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
RACHEL CARSONFor 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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To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
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The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.
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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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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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In nature nothing exists alone.
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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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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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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
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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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The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth – soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.
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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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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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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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