Rachel Carson Quotes - Page 3

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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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  Past, Promise, Remember

  Rachel Carson, Sue Hubbell (1998). “The Edge of the Sea”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A Who's Who of pesticides is therefore of concern to us all. If we are going to live so intimately with these chemicals eating and drinking them, taking them into the very marrow of our bones - we had better know something about their nature and their power.

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  Drinking, Pesticides, Bones

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored.

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  Science, Bored, Quality

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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• The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.

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  Nature, Philosophy, Men

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.297, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.

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  Science, Sea, Environmental

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• The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.

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  Years, Childhood, Soil

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?

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  Home, Circles, Insanity

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?

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  Vision, Demand, Accepting

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.

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  Song, Joy, Quality

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.

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  Nature, Children, Humanity

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• When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself - the primeval meeting place of the elements of earth and water, a place of compromise and conflit and eternal change.

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  Ocean, Water, Elements

  Rachel Carson, Sue Hubbell (1998). “The Edge of the Sea”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh... Even the streams were now lifeless... No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.

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  Morning, Spring, Voice

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Until we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world. There can be no double standard. We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing, we set back the progress of humanity.

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  Peace, War, Heart

  "Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge", ed. Lisa H. Sideris and Kathleen Dean Moore Albany: State University of New York Press, (p. 102), 2008.

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• 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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  Nature, Ocean, Sea

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sea Around Us”, p.160, Open Road Media

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• If I had influence with the good fairy... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.

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  Children, Creativity, Awe And Wonder

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.

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  Nature, Choices, May

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.13, Open Road Media

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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.

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  Writing, Discipline, Listening

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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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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  Dollars, Cost, Eras

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• By suggestion and example, I believe children can be helped to hear the many voices about them. Take Time to listen and talk about the voices of the earth and what they mean-the majestic voice of thunder, the winds, the sound of surf or flowing streams.

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  Children, Believe, Mean

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• If having endured much, we at last asserted our 'right to know' and if, knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals, we should look around and see what other course is open to us.

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  Nature, Knowing, Our World

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• Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may glow with sheets of cold fire, while below schools of fish pour through the water like molten metal.

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  Ocean, School, Autumn

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sea Around Us”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.

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  Wildlife, Conservation, Resources

  Rachel Carson (1948). “Guarding Our Wildlife Resources”

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• Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.

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  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sea Around Us”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of ecological relationships is - or should be - the basis of modern conservation programs, for it is useless to attempt to preserve a living species unless the kind of land or water it requires is also preserved. So delicately interwoven are the relationships that when we disturb one thread of the community fabric we alter it all - perhaps almost imperceptibly, perhaps so drastically that destruction follows.

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  Land, Water, Community

  "Essay on the Biological Sciences". Good Reading, 1958.

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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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  Beautiful, Children, Garden

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

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