The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
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 child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.
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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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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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The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind – that, and anger at the senseless, brutish things that were being done. . . . Now I can believe I have at least helped a little.
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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 rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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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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But most of all I shall remember the monarchs, that unhurried westward drift of one small winged form after another, each drawn by some invisible force.
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Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
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The ‘control of nature’ is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.
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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.
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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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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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As crude a weapon as a cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
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