Rachel Carson Short Quotes

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The ocean is the earth's greatest storehouse of minerals.

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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.

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The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.

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Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.

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Help me search for a fairy cave on an August moon and a low, low tide.

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The history of life on earth is the history of living things and their environment.

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I am always more interested in what I am about to do than in what I have already done.

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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.

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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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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.

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Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.

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The continents themselves dissolve and pass to the sea, in grain after grain of eroded land...

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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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There remains, in this space-age universe, the possibility that man's way is not always the best.

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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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To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.

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In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is a story of the earth.

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Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.

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It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.

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Under the philosophy that now seems to guide our destinies, nothing must get in the way of the man with the spray gun.

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The sea has always challenged the minds and imagination of men and even today it remains the last great frontier of Earth.

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The sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that we use it so little.

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There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life — we are never bored.

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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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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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It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.

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For all at last returns to the sea—to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the everflowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.

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I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to 'know' as to 'feel'.

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It is more important to pave the way for the child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts he is not ready to assimilate.

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This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits.

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