Rachel Carson Quotes
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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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Play, Incorporating Animistic and Magical Thinking Is Important Because It:
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There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored.
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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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Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
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We have been troubled about the world, and had almost lost faith in man; it helps to think about the long history of the earth, and of how life came to be. And when we think in terms of millions of years, we are not so impatient that our own problems be solved tomorrow.
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Nothing is wasted in the sea; every particle of material is used over and over again, first by one creature, then by another. And when in spring the waters are deeply stirred, the warm bottom water brings to the surface a rich supply of minerals, ready for use by new forms of life.
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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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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To the bird watcher, the suburbanite who derives joy from birds in his garden, the hunter, the fisherman or the explorer of wild regions, anything that destroys the wildlife of an area for even a single year has deprived him of pleasure to which he has a legitimate right. This is a valid point of view.
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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.
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The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
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We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks that the insect controllers calculate. The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts.
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One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.
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I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.
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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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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 edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
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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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Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any reason we find its presence undesirable or merely a matter of indifference, we may condemn it to destruction forthwith.
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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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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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Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.