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 CARSONI am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
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The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
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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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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.
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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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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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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.
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It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.
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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.
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
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