Universe Quotes by Rachel Carson

8 Universe quotes by Rachel Carson

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Rachel Carson’s reverence for nature extends to the heavens in these eight short quotes. Her voice reminds us that the Universe is part of the larger ecological tapestry we inhabit.

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There is certainly no single remedy for this condition and I am offering no panacea. But it seems reasonable to believe —…

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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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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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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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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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“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we…

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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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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we…

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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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