Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
RACHEL CARSONDrink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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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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I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
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To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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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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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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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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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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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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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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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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Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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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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