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• The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.

  Rachel Carson

  Arrogance, Neanderthals, Phrases

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.297, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth - soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.

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  Real, Lying, Water

  Rachel Carson (2011). “Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson”, p.99, Beacon Press

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• We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of human beings, isolated and priestlike in their laboratories. This is not true. The materials of science are the materials of life itself. Science is part of the reality of living; it is the way, the how and the why for everything in our experience.

  Rachel Carson

  Reality, Numbers, Age

  Rachel Carson (2011). “Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson”, p.91, Beacon Press

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

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  Inspirational, Done

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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• The Choice, after all, is ours to make.

  Rachel Carson

  Choices

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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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  Humility, Lust, Sides

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Rachel Carson

  Mystery, Threshold, Greater

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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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.

  Rachel Carson

  Science, Bored, Quality

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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• If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Children, Years

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

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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 of a vast and incredible universe.

  Rachel Carson

  Motivational, Thinking, Tiny

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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• A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.

  Rachel Carson

  Rain, Weather, Perfect

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.13, Open Road Media

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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 one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

  Rachel Carson

  Book, Writing, Sea

  Rachel Carson (1989). “The Sea Around Us”, p.24, Oxford University Press, USA

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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.

  Rachel Carson

  Beauty, Nature, Humility

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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.

  Rachel Carson

  Inspirational, Peace, Nature

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.41, Open Road Media

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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.

  Rachel Carson

  Writing, Discipline, Listening

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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• Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land, now to the sea.

  Rachel Carson

  Ocean, Swings, Sea

  Rachel Carson, Sue Hubbell (1998). “The Edge of the Sea”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Those who love and free nature are never alone.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Environmental, Environment

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• It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh... Even the streams were now lifeless... No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.

  Rachel Carson

  Morning, Spring, Voice

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.

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  Beautiful, Children, World

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.

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  War, Civilization, Losing

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.

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  Men, Rivers, Air

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we're challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves.

  Rachel Carson

  Believe, Maturity, Thinking

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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• The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.

  Rachel Carson

  Beautiful, Sea, Strange

  Rachel Carson, Sue Hubbell (1998). “The Edge of the Sea”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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  Beach, Nature, Ocean

  Rachel Carson (2011). “Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson”, p.114, Beacon Press

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• Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?

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  Vision, Demand, Accepting

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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