Rachel Carson Quotes

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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 of a vast…
• If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write…
• In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources…
• Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent…
• A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed…
• Short version: For the child. . ., it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the seeds that later…
• It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that…
• A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
• Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Whatever the vexations…
• Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
• For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of…
• There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to…
• Those who love and free nature are never alone.
• A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
• Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.
• One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on…
• Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.
• We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have…
• [Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you…
• Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any reason…

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