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.
RACHEL CARSONThe 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.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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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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There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.
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We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life.
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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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[Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible. For me that usually means many, many revisions.
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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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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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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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Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may glow with sheets of cold fire, while below schools of fish pour through the water like molten metal.
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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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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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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
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Only as a child’s awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.
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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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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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