Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
RACHEL CARSONThose who love and free nature are never alone.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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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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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 all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.
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The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
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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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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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It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.
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The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth – soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.
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Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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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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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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Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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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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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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