Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
RACHEL CARSONIt is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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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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The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
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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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It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
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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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The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water.
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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.
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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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Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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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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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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Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
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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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