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 CARSONOnly 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.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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[Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible. For me that usually means many, many revisions.
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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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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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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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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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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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Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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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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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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There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life – we are never bored.
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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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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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