Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
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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The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
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It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.
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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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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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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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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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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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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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One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, “What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?
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It is not half so important to know as to feel.
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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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In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
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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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