"Why should we tolerate a diet of weak……" — Rachel Carson
"Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?"
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Rachel Carson
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107 Quotes by Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson has 107 quotes on this site.
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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…
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If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but…
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In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival,…
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Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the…
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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…
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Short version: For the child. . ., it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts…
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It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities…
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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…
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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…
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There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does…
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
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Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a…
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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures,…
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Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which…
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Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our…
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There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra…
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already…
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it…
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I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.
— Charles Bronson
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Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing,…
— Donald Cargill
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