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1. Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.

2. The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

3. In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.

4. 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.

5. Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species — man — acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.

6. As crude a weapon as the cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.

7. 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.

8. So nature does indeed need protection from man; but man, too, needs protection from his own acts, for he is part of the living world. His war against nature is inevitably a war against himself. His heedless and destructive acts enter into the vast cycles of the earth, and in time return to him.

9. It is not half so important to know as to feel.

10. 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?

11. “The fact that every meal we eat carries its load of chlorinated hydrocarbons is the inevitable consequence of the almost universal spraying or dusting of agricultural crops with these poisons.”

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a few quotes from Rachel Carson, Author of many books including: "Silent Spring".