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.
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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The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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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.
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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.
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I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
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I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life – past, present, and future.
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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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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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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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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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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 child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.
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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 lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing life.
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The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.
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Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we’re challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves.
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Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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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 real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth – soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.
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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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The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
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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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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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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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Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.
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Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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