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Life Quotes by Rachel Carson
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.
- As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
- For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future... Yet genetic…
- The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.…
- Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for…
- The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the…
- These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes-nonselective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect,…
- There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings Then a strange blight…
- Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our major concern is…
- No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.
- Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Those who contemplate the beauty of the…
- We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man…
- When any living thing has come to the end of its cycle, we accept that end as natural. When that intangible cycle has run its…
- We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of human beings, isolated…
- Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same…
- In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead…
- If I had influence with the good fairy... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder…
- Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
- Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.
- If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it,…
- If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift…
- Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle