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Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.

Rachel Carson

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Rachel Carson
Age: 56 †
Born: 1907
Born: May 27
Died: 1964
Died: April 14
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Conservationist
Environmentalist
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Marine Biologist
Non-Fiction Writer
Zoologist
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Rachel Louise Carson
Rachel L. Carson
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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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