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title: "2 Surf Quotes By Rachel Carson"
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> [To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/to-stand-at-the-edge-of-the-sea-to-sense-the-ebb-and-flow-of-the/)

[Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5f/rachel-carson-2645_bird_to-stand-at-the-edge-of-the-sea-to-sense_1138399.png)

> [By suggestion and example, I believe children can be helped to hear the many voices about them. Take Time to listen and talk about the voices of the earth and what they mean-the majestic voice of thunder, the winds, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/by-suggestion-and-example-i-believe-children-can-be-helped-to-hear/)

[Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a55/rachel-carson-2645_believe_by-suggestion-and-example-i-believe-chil_2766332.jpg)

## Other authors on Surf

## More by Rachel Carson

> [It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/it-was-a-spring-without-voices-on-the-mornings-that-had-once-throbbed/)

[Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/)

> [When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself - the primeval meeting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/when-we-go-down-to-the-low-tide-line-we-enter-a-world-that-is-as-old/)

[Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/)

> [There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/there-is-no-drop-of-water-in-the-ocean-not-even-in-the-deepest-parts/)

[Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/)

> [The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/the-control-of-nature-is-a-phrase-conceived-in-arrogance/)

[Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/)

> [Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/wonder-and-humility-are-wholesome-emotions-and-they-do-not-exist-side/)

[Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/)

> [Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/only-within-the-20th-century-has-biological-thought-been-focused-on/)

[Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/)

> [It is not half so important to know as to feel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/it-is-not-half-so-important-to-know-as-to-feel/)

[Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/)

> [The Choice, after all, is ours to make.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/the-choice-after-all-is-ours-to-make/)

[Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/now-i-truly-believe-that-we-in-this-generation-must-come-to-terms/)

[Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/)

> [Any concept of biology is not only sterile and profitless, it is distorted and untrue, if it puts its primary focus on unnatural conditions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/any-concept-of-biology-is-not-only-sterile-and-profitless-it-is/)

[Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/)

> [Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/autumn-comes-to-the-sea-with-a-fresh-blaze-of-phosphorescence-when/)

[Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/)

> [“The sea is blue because the sunlight is reflected back to our eyes from the water molecules or from very minute particles suspended in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/the-sea-is-blue-because-the-sunlight-is-reflected-back-to-our-eyes/)

[Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/)

> [If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/if-i-had-influence-with-the-good-fairy-who-is-supposed-to-preside/)

[Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/)

> [Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/over-increasingly-large-areas-of-the-united-states-spring-now-comes/)

[Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/)

> [I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/i-like-to-define-biology-as-the-history-of-the-earth-and-all-its-life/)

[Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/)

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