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For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.

Rachel Carson

Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may glow with sheets of cold fire, while below schools of fish pour through the water like molten metal.
RACHEL CARSON

Autumn Material Ocean Science Sea
The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
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Character Future Human Nature Ourselves Race
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.
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Change Existence Life Ocean Science Sea
For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.
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Dangerousousousousous Death History Human Moments Time World
Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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Greatness Mystery Oneself
Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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Beautiful See Wonderful Yourself
Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.
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End Environment Ourselves River Work
Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent. It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people.
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Knowing People Speaks Out
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
I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
RACHEL CARSON

Future Myself Past
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
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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Believe Environmental Poison
It is not half so important to know as to feel.
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Feeling Important
By suggestion and example, I believe children can be helped to hear the many voices about them. Take Time to listen and talk about the voices of the earth and what they mean-the majestic voice of thunder, the winds, the sound of surf or flowing streams.
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Believe Children Help Listening Myself Nature Time Voice
The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water.
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Land Long Sea
Those who love and free nature are never alone.
RACHEL CARSON

Environment Freedom Love Nature

For 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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