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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.

Rachel Carson

We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
RACHEL CARSON

Heart Life Peace
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Form Invisible Remember
I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life – past, present, and future.
RACHEL CARSON

Environment History Myself Nature Past
For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.
RACHEL CARSON

Dangerousousousousous Death History Human Moments Time World
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Change Men Nature
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Beautiful Believe Live Mind Myself Save Try World
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Attention Destruction Focus Ourselves Taste
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Night Ocean Oneself Space Summer
Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.
RACHEL CARSON

Environment Live Mystery Science Sea
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Book Leaving Poetry Sea Truth Writing
Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
RACHEL CARSON

Dream Joy Quality Remember Song
Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
RACHEL CARSON

Acceptance Demand Goodness Lost Vision
There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life – we are never bored.
RACHEL CARSON

Boredom Character Deal Life Oneself Quality Science
For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.
RACHEL CARSON

Beginning End Nature Ocean Praise Sea Time
The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
RACHEL CARSON

Choice Ourselves Relationship Togetherness
The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
RACHEL CARSON

Attitude Control Nature

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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