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.
RACHEL CARSONThose who love and free nature are never alone.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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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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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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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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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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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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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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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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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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Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
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If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.
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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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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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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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