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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.

Rachel Carson

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.
RACHEL CARSON

Beautiful Healing Inspirational Life Nature Night Spring Strength Time Winter
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
To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
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Live Past Philosophy Present Promise Remember Understand
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
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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End Environment Ourselves River Work
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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Fiction Literature Science
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
RACHEL CARSON

Beautiful Endurance Life Nature Strength
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
I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
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Future Myself Past
In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
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Nature Space Spiritual Story
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
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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Believe Challenge Maturity Myself Nature Ourselves Thinking True
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
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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Autumn Material Ocean Science Sea
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
The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
RACHEL CARSON

Discipline Himself Learning Listening Writing

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