It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
RACHEL CARSONIt is not half so important to know as to feel.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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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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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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I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life – past, present, and future.
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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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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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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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The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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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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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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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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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
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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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I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
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