Nature of man Quotes by Rachel Carson

10 Nature of man quotes by Rachel Carson

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Rachel Carson’s reflections on human nature are distilled into ten compact lines, giving you a swift sense of her environmental lens on people.

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We are challenged as mankind has never been challenged before to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of…

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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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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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The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

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Along with the possibility of extinction of mankind by nuclear war, the central problem of our age has therefore become the contamination…

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Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is -- whether its victim is human or animal -- we…

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Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we're challenged, as mankind…

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“Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much better in this…

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Until we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot…

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

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

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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…

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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.

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

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

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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.

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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…

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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 unnatural conditions…

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

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

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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 that her…

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

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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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