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Quotes by Rachel Carson

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder... he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964)
 
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And so in my mind's eye these coastal forms merge and blend in a shifting, kaleidoscopic pattern in which there is no finality, no ultimate and fixed reality - earth becoming fluid as the sea itself.

Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964)
Source: The Edge of the Sea
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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. 

Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964)
 
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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature ~ the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.

Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964)
 
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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964)
 
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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.

Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964)
 
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The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.

Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964)
 
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In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.

Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964)
 
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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.

Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964)
Source: "The Silent Spring," 1962
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The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery - not over nature but of ourselves.

Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964)
 
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