Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
RACHEL CARSONThose who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
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Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
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In nature nothing exists alone.
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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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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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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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For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.
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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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It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
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The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.
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Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent. It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people.
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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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I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
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