The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
RACHEL CARSONDrink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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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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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
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If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
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I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life – past, present, and future.
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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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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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As crude a weapon as a cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
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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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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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In nature nothing exists alone.
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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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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 love and free nature are never alone.
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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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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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