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It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.
- Rachel Carson
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The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.
- Rachel Carson
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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.
- Rachel Carson
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The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.
- Rachel Carson
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Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is we cannot expect things to be much better in this world We cannot have peace among men whose hearts 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.
- Rachel Carson
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I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future. To understand biology is to understand that all life is linked to the earth from which it came; it is to understand that the stream of life, flowing out of the dim past into the uncertain future, is in reality a unified force, though composed of an infinite number and variety of separate lives.
- Rachel Carson
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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.
- Rachel Carson
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By acquiescing in an act that can cause such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished as a human being.
- Rachel Carson
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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.
- Rachel Carson
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As crude a weapon as the cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
- Rachel Carson
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