Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
RACHEL CARSONWe still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven’t become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
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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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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.
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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.
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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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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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Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.
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It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.
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There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.
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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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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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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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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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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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