As crude a weapon as a cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
RACHEL CARSONThe real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth – soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.
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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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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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.
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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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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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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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The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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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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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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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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