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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
Rachel Carson
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Rachel Carson
Age: 56 †
Born: 1907
Born: May 27
Died: 1964
Died: April 14
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Marine Biologist
Non-Fiction Writer
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent... It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people.
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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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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.
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