It is not half so important to know as to feel.
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.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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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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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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Nowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect; each living thing is bound to its world by many threads, weaving the intricate design of the fabric of life.
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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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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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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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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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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.
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If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
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In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
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