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Life Quotes by Rachel Carson

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Rachel Carson defines biology as the earth’s whole story, past, present and future. She marvels that nothing in the sea is wasted, with each particle passing from one creature to another. She also wishes every child could keep an unbreakable sense of wonder about all living things.

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“By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?”

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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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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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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.

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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…

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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…

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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find resources of strength that will endure as long as life lasts

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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 lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place…

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In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many…

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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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Nowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect; each…

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If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who…

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Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making…

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When any living thing has come to the end of its cycle, we accept that end as natural. When that intangible cycle…

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The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind - that, and anger…

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I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future. To understand…

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“Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment.…

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If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask…

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Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our…

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Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment.…

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There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings Then…

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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…

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“Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject…

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Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach…

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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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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

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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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No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.

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If I had influence with the good fairy... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a…

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The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be…

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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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If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask…

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Those who contemplate the…

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It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one…

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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is…

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For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and…

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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…

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Any concept of biology is not only sterile and profitless, it is distorted and untrue, if it puts its primary focus on…

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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…

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It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and…

When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself - the primeval meeting…

There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond…

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.

Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.

Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of…

It is not half so important to know as to feel.

The Choice, after all, is ours to make.

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…

Any concept of biology is not only sterile and profitless, it is distorted and untrue, if it puts its primary focus on unnatural conditions…

Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may…

“The sea is blue because the sunlight is reflected back to our eyes from the water molecules or from very minute particles suspended in…

If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her…

Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely…

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.