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We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life.

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
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Non-Fiction Writer
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Rachel Louise Carson
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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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.
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