The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth – soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.
RACHEL CARSONScience is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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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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Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
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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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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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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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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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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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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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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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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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The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.
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Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.
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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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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
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It is not half so important to know as to feel.
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