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Only 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.

Rachel Carson

Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
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Appearance Choice Herself Nature Reward
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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Challenge Domination Price Right
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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Earth Day Fabric Of Life Men
Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides.
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Believe Environmental Poison
The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind – that, and anger at the senseless, brutish things that were being done. . . . Now I can believe I have at least helped a little.
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Beautiful Believe Live Mind Myself Save Try World
By suggestion and example, I believe children can be helped to hear the many voices about them. Take Time to listen and talk about the voices of the earth and what they mean-the majestic voice of thunder, the winds, the sound of surf or flowing streams.
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Believe Children Help Listening Myself Nature Time Voice
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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Change Gratitude Motivational Myself See
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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Age Born Control Existence Men Nature Philosophy
Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any reason we find its presence undesirable or merely a matter of indifference, we may condemn it to destruction forthwith.
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Attitude Destruction Difference Oneself Ourselves See
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
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Attention Destruction Focus Ourselves Taste
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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Change Life Protection Seek
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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Night Ocean Oneself Space Summer
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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Creation Force Mystery Ocean
It is not half so important to know as to feel.
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Feeling Important
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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Civilization Important Life Man Ourselves True
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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Links Men Past

Only 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.

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