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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

As crude a weapon as a cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
RACHEL CARSON

Earth Day Fabric Of Life Men
The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
RACHEL CARSON

Attitude Control Nature
The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.
RACHEL CARSON

Fiction Literature Science
But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
RACHEL CARSON

Deep Himself Inspirational Man Motivational War
Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
RACHEL CARSON

Destruction Emotion Existence Humility Lust Wonderful
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Night Ocean Oneself Space Summer
The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
RACHEL CARSON

Discipline Himself Learning Listening Writing
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Change Existence Life Ocean Science Sea
The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.
RACHEL CARSON

Civilization Destroy Life Lose Right War
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Children Development Humanity Kind Life Nature
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Design Life Live Nature Ocean Science World
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Book Leaving Poetry Sea Truth Writing
I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
RACHEL CARSON

Future Myself Past
It is not half so important to know as to feel.
RACHEL CARSON

Feeling Important
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
RACHEL CARSON

Great Mother Mother Sea
Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
RACHEL CARSON

Appearance Choice Herself Nature Reward

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.

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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.

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