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I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.

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Rachel Carson
Age: 56 †
Born: 1907
Born: May 27
Died: 1964
Died: April 14
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I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever we substitute something man-made and artificial for a natural feature of the earth, we have retarded some part of man's spiritual growth.
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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, . . . when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man . . . . It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons, and that in turning them against the insects it has also turned them against the earth.
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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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