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Nature Quotes by Rachel Carson

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The low‑tide line is an ancient meeting place of earth and water in the quotes. They stress that trying to control nature shows arrogance and that we must learn humility. They also highlight how tides, winds, and ecology reveal the planet’s long history.

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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.

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Those who love and free nature are never alone.

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In nature nothing exists alone.

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

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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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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.

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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.

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Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.

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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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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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I still feel there is a case to be made for my old belief that as man approaches the 'new heaven and…

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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…

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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…

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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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Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing…

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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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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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We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The…

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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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The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, . . . when it was supposed that nature exists for the…

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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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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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We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part…

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We have looked first at man with his vanities and greed and his problems of a day or a year; and then…

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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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“A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of…

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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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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man

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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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The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth - soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.

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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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It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties…

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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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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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Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter…

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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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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…

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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…

“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.