It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
RACHEL CARSONThose who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides.
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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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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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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’.
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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
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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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Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.
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Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.
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Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
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Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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