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 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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Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.
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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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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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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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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
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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.
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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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The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.
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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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Only as a child’s awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.
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In nature nothing exists alone.
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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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When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself – the primeval meeting place of the elements of earth and water, a place of compromise and conflit and eternal change.
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