It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.
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If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.Rachel Carson
For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that we use it so little.
Rachel Carson
We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road -- the one less traveled by -- offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.
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Under the philosophy that now seems to guide our destinies, nothing must get in the way of the man with the spray gun.
Rachel Carson
In every out thrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is a story of the earth.
Rachel Carson
Because I was providing parts that weren't available anywhere in the world, within two years it became international and in the last four years I think I've penetrated 23 countries.
Rachel Carson
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