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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.

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
Essayist
Marine Biologist
Non-Fiction Writer
Zoologist
Rachel Carson House
Rachel Louise Carson
Rachel L. Carson
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Drink
Wonder
Beauty

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A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.
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Nowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect each living thing is bound to its world by many threads, weaving the intricate design of the fabric of life.
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Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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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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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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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.
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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.
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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 beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind - that, and anger at the senseless, brutish things that were being done. . . . Now I can believe I have at least helped a little.
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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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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
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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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In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead husks of that same life. For all at last return to the sea - to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.
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I still feel there is a case to be made for my old belief that as man approaches the 'new heaven and the new earth' -- or the space-age universe, if you will, he must do so with humility rather than with arrogance.
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The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth - soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.
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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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To the bird watcher, the suburbanite who derives joy from birds in his garden, the hunter, the fisherman or the explorer of wild regions, anything that destroys the wildlife of an area for even a single year has deprived him of pleasure to which he has a legitimate right. This is a valid point of view.
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