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One Quotes by Rachel Carson
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Is it reasonable to suppose that we can apply a broad-spectrum insecticide to kill the burrowing larval stages of a crop-destroying insect ... without also…
- But most of all I shall remember the monarchs, that unhurried westward drift of one small winged form after another, each drawn by some invisible…
- Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of ecological…
- Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of…
- 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,…
- One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never…
- As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life - a fabric on the…
- If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at…
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle