The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
RACHEL CARSONKnowing 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.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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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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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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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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It is not half so important to know as to feel.
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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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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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Nowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect; each living thing is bound to its world by many threads, weaving the intricate design of the fabric of life.
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Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
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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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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to ‘know’ as to ‘feel’.
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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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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
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