I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life – past, present, and future.
RACHEL CARSONThose who love and free nature are never alone.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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But most of all I shall remember the monarchs, that unhurried westward drift of one small winged form after another, each drawn by some invisible force.
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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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In nature nothing exists alone.
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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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I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
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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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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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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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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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One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, “What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?
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The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.
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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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Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
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I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to ‘know’ as to ‘feel’.
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Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land, now to the sea.
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