The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
RACHEL CARSONI am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
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The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth – soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.
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I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
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The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
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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.
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In nature nothing exists alone.
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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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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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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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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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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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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 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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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
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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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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.
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