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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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Marine Biologist
Non-Fiction Writer
Zoologist
Rachel Carson House
Rachel Louise Carson
Rachel L. Carson
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Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these forces.
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Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any reason we find its presence undesirable or merely a matter of indifference, we may condemn it to destruction forthwith.
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For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future... Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time.
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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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The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing life.
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The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.
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Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
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As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
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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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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.
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Science is part of the reality of living it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.
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It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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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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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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Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.
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