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Rachel Carson has 115 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no…
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In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along…
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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…
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A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of…
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Short version: For the child. . ., it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the…
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It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one…
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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.…
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Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
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For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from…
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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…
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Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.
— Larry L. King
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What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due…
— G. M. Trevelyan
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Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke…
— Ted Solotaroff
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Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush.
— Peter Murphy
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There is no great writing, only great rewriting.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Good writing is rewriting.
— Truman Capote
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
— Roald Dahl
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Writing is rewriting. A writer must learn to deepen characters, trim writing, intensify scenes. To fall in love with the first draft…
— Richard North Patterson
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When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.
— Leo Tolstoy
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Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.
— John Updike
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My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's…
— Joan Didion
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