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The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible. In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little-recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world-the very nature of its life.

Rachel Carson's Popular Quotes

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.

- 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…

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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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In nature nothing exists alone.

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The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

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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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One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?

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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

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Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.

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