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It is not half so important to know as to feel.

Rachel Carson

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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Design Life Live Nature Ocean Science World
To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
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Live Past Philosophy Present Promise Remember Understand
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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Beautiful Healing Inspirational Life Nature Night Spring Strength Time Winter
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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Beautiful Children Excitement Eyes Garden Vision Wonderful
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
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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Healing Nature Peace Wild
The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing life.
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Himself Life Nature Place Science World
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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Beautiful Herself Humility Nature Necessary Wonderful
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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Civilization Destroy Life Lose Right War
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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Beginning End Nature Ocean Praise Sea Time
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
We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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Heart Life Peace
The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.
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Long Lying Progress
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
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Beginning One Liner
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
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

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