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The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth – soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.

Rachel Carson

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

Great Mother Mother Sea
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
RACHEL CARSON

Beautiful Endurance Life Nature Strength
The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
RACHEL CARSON

Discipline Himself Learning Listening Writing
Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.
RACHEL CARSON

End Environment Ourselves River Work
By suggestion and example, I believe children can be helped to hear the many voices about them. Take Time to listen and talk about the voices of the earth and what they mean-the majestic voice of thunder, the winds, the sound of surf or flowing streams.
RACHEL CARSON

Believe Children Help Listening Myself Nature Time Voice
The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
RACHEL CARSON

Character Future Human Nature Ourselves Race
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’.
RACHEL CARSON

Believe Children Parent
In nature nothing exists alone.
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Alone Existence Nature
As crude a weapon as a cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
RACHEL CARSON

Earth Day Fabric Of Life Men
The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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Choice Ourselves Relationship Togetherness
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
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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Age Difference Forget Men Need Survive Victim
It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
RACHEL CARSON

Challenge Domination Price Right
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Believe Challenge Maturity Myself Nature Ourselves Thinking True
[Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible. For me that usually means many, many revisions.
RACHEL CARSON

End Hard Work Myself Possible Satisfaction Simplicity Writing
Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any reason we find its presence undesirable or merely a matter of indifference, we may condemn it to destruction forthwith.
RACHEL CARSON

Attitude Destruction Difference Oneself Ourselves See

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