I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life – past, present, and future.
RACHEL CARSONBeginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
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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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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
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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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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 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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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
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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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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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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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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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In nature nothing exists alone.
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In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.
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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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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
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