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Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
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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.
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As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
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Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored.
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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.
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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
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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.
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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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Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
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By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?
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....The chemists' ingenuity in devising insecticides has long ago outrun biological knowledge of the way these poisons affect the living organism.
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From a ball of mud taken from a birds plumage, Charles Darwin raised 82 separate plants, belonging to five distinct species!
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The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water.
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The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
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It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.
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Many children ... delight in the small and inconspicuous.
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Every grain of sand or silt carried out by the rivers and deposited at sea displaces a corresponding amount of water.
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In the fish world many things are told by sound waves.
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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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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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This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits.
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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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Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.
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The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.
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In nature nothing exists alone.
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Natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society.
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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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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
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It is not half so important to know as to feel.
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In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
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To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
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One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.
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Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.
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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons
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The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
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Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.
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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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