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 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 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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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.
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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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But most of all I shall remember the monarchs, that unhurried westward drift of one small winged form after another, each drawn by some invisible force.
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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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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Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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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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To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
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In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.
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Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.
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Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land, now to the sea.
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Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
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I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to ‘know’ as to ‘feel’.
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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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