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? Rachel Carson More Quotes by Rachel Carson More Quotes From Rachel Carson 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. Rachel Carson nature humility beauty Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we're challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves. Rachel Carson maturity believe thinking We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of human beings, isolated and priestlike in their laboratories. This is not true. The materials of science are the materials of life itself. Science is part of the reality of living; it is the way, the how and the why for everything in our experience. Rachel Carson age numbers reality Short version: For the child. . ., it is not half so important to know as to feel. 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. . . . It is more important to pave the way for a child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts that he is not ready to assimilate. Rachel Carson garden important children There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature. Rachel Carson wilderness nature healing I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever we substitute something man-made and artificial for a natural feature of the earth, we have retarded some part of man's spiritual growth. Rachel Carson spiritual science believe The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind - that, and anger at the senseless, brutish things that were being done. . . . Now I can believe I have at least helped a little. Rachel Carson mind trying believe The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing life. Rachel Carson amazing-life sea sky I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done. Rachel Carson done inspirational There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide. Rachel Carson ocean nature water If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children 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, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength. Rachel Carson nature children years The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance. Rachel Carson neanderthals phrases arrogance Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself. Rachel Carson environmental sea science A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods. Rachel Carson perfect rain weather There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored. Rachel Carson bored quality science The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil. Rachel Carson soil childhood years We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life. Rachel Carson important rivers men 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. Rachel Carson ocean nature sea 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. Rachel Carson tiny motivational thinking 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 sea writing book
