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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.

Rachel Carson

The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
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Discipline Himself Learning Listening Writing
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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Links Men Past
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.
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Dangerousousousousous Death History Human Moments Time World
There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life – we are never bored.
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Boredom Character Deal Life Oneself Quality Science
Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.
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Alone Inspirational Life Mystery Nature Peace
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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Age Difference Forget Men Need Survive Victim
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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Acceptance Demand Goodness Lost Vision
A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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Nature Perfection Rain Time
When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself – the primeval meeting place of the elements of earth and water, a place of compromise and conflit and eternal change.
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Nature Old World
Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any reason we find its presence undesirable or merely a matter of indifference, we may condemn it to destruction forthwith.
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Attitude Destruction Difference Oneself Ourselves See
We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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Heart Life Peace
We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven’t become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe.
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Enough Human Nature Ourselves Talk
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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Attention Destruction Focus Ourselves Taste
Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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Greatness Mystery Oneself
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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Choices Men Thinking
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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Change Existence Life Ocean Science Sea

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