Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
RACHEL CARSONThe real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth – soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.
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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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Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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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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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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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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Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land, now to the sea.
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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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For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future… Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time.
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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 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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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species — man — acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.
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But most of all I shall remember the monarchs, that unhurried westward drift of one small winged form after another, each drawn by some invisible force.
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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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We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life.
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