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.
RACHEL CARSONThose who love and free nature are never alone.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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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 years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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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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We 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.
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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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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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Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
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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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The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
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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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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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In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
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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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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.
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