Best Quotes by Rachel Carson (Top 10)
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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.
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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.
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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
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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.
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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?
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In nature nothing exists alone.
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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.
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The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
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In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
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More Rachel Carson Quotes
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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 long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road-the one "less traveled by"-offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.
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It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.
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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species — man — acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.
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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.
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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 least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in
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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 with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.
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If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.
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As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
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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 the moment of conception until death.
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No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.
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The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
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