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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.

Rachel Carson

Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent. It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people.
RACHEL CARSON

Knowing People Speaks Out
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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Creation Force Mystery Ocean
The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
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Character Future Human Nature Ourselves Race
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
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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Challenge Domination Price Right
The ‘control of nature’ is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.
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Age Born Control Existence Men Nature Philosophy
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
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
Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
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Destruction Emotion Existence Humility Lust Wonderful
I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
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Future Myself Past
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
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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Experience Live Ourselves Reality Science
One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.
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Night Ocean Oneself Space Summer
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
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
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Beginning One Liner
In nature nothing exists alone.
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Alone Existence Nature
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
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Beautiful Endurance Life Nature Strength
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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Children Development Humanity Kind Life Nature
It is not half so important to know as to feel.
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Feeling Important
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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Environment Man Material Nature Sea
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.
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Change Men Nature
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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Healing Nature Peace Wild
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
Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.
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Change Life Protection Seek
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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Earth Day Fabric Of Life Men
I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life – past, present, and future.
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Environment History Myself Nature Past
The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth – soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.
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Nation Nature Reality World

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