To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
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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Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we’re challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves.
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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 discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
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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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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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It is not half so important to know as to feel.
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The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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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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Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may glow with sheets of cold fire, while below schools of fish pour through the water like molten metal.
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In nature nothing exists alone.
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Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
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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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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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