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 CARSONScience 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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The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water.
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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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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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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.
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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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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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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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It is not half so important to know as to feel.
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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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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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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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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.
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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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The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
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