Best Quotes by Rachel Carson (Top 10)

  1. The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
  2. 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 in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.
  3. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
  4. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
  5. 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, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
  6. 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 see it again?
  7. In nature nothing exists alone.
  8. To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.
  9. The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
  10. In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.

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