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.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
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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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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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In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
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Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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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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One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, “What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?
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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.
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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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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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As crude a weapon as a cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
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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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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.
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