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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.

Rachel Carson

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

Beginning End Nature Ocean Praise Sea Time
A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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Nature Perfection Rain Time
I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life – past, present, and future.
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Environment History Myself Nature Past
The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
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Beautiful Place Sea Strange
It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.
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Choices Men Thinking
The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
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Childhood Soil Years
If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.
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Book Leaving Poetry Sea Truth Writing
In nature nothing exists alone.
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Alone Existence Nature
But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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Deep Himself Inspirational Man Motivational War
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
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
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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Age Born Control Existence Men Nature Philosophy
We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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Heart Life Peace
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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Beautiful Believe Live Mind Myself Save Try World
Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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Beautiful See Wonderful Yourself
There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.
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Creation Force Mystery Ocean

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.

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