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I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.

Rachel Carson

As crude a weapon as a cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
RACHEL CARSON

Earth Day Fabric Of Life Men
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

Boundary Change Nature Ocean Sea
In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.
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Age Difference Forget Men Need Survive Victim
It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.
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Change Existence Life Ocean Science Sea
For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future… Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time.
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Links Men Past
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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Age Born Control Existence Men Nature Philosophy
In nature nothing exists alone.
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Alone Existence Nature
Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we’re challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves.
RACHEL CARSON

Believe Challenge Maturity Myself Nature Ourselves Thinking True
I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
RACHEL CARSON

Future Myself Past
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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Land Long Sea
The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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Choice Ourselves Relationship Togetherness
The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
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Beautiful Place Sea Strange
The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
RACHEL CARSON

Character Future Human Nature Ourselves Race
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
Those who love and free nature are never alone.
RACHEL CARSON

Environment Freedom Love Nature
Nowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect; each living thing is bound to its world by many threads, weaving the intricate design of the fabric of life.
RACHEL CARSON

Design Life Live Nature Ocean Science World

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