The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.
RACHEL CARSONBeginnings are apt to be shadowy.
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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing life.
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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 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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In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
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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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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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The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind – that, and anger at the senseless, brutish things that were being done. . . . Now I can believe I have at least helped a little.
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
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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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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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The most alarming of all man’s assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.
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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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Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
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