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“We have looked first at man with his vanities and greed and his problems of a day or a year; and then only, and from this biased point of view, we have looked outward at the earth he has inhabited so briefly and at the universe in which our earth is so minute a part. Yet these are the great realities, and against them we see our human problems in a different perspective. Perhaps if we reversed the telescope and looked at man down these long vistas, we should find less time and inclination to plan for our own destruction.”

Quote by Rachel Carson

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Rachel Carson, an American marine biologist, was born on May 27, 1907, and passed away on April 14, 1964. She is renowned for her in-depth research on marine ecosystems and her advocacy for environmental issues. Carson's book 'Silent Spring' revealed the destructive impact of pesticides on the environment, which had a profound impact on the environmental movement. more

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Thinking Men World Years Long Has Beens Helping Problem Earth Lost Term Millions Tomorrow Impatient Lost Faith

Author:Rachel Carson

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Source: Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson

“I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future. To understand biology is to understand that all life is linked to the earth from which it came; it is to understand that the stream of life, flowing out of the dim past into the uncertain future, is in reality a unified force, though composed of an infinite number and variety of separate lives.”

Reality Earth Past Life Is Force Numbers Infinite Variety Streams Biology Uncertain Linked Unified Past Present Past Present And Future Uncertain Future Separate Lives

Author:Rachel Carson

“Any concept of biology is not only sterile and profitless, it is distorted and untrue, if it puts its primary focus on unnatural conditions rather than on those vast forces not of man's making that shape and channel the nature and direction of life.”

Ifs Men Force Focus Conditions Shapes Concepts Primaries Biology Unnatural Untrue

Author:Rachel Carson

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Problem Fit Eras Specialists Silent Spring

Book:Silent Spring

Source: Silent Spring

“To the bird watcher, the suburbanite who derives joy from birds in his garden, the hunter, the fisherman or the explorer of wild regions, anything that destroys the wildlife of an area for even a single year has deprived him of pleasure to which he has a legitimate right. This is a valid point of view.”

Years Joy Pleasure Views Bird Areas Garden Point Of View Regions Hunters Deprived Wildlife Explorers Fisherman Watchers Silent Spring

Book:Silent Spring

Source: Silent Spring

“In recent years it has become impossible to talk about man's relation to nature without referring to "ecology"...such leading scientists in this area as Rachel Carson, Barry Commoner, Eugene Odum, Paul Ehrlich and others, have become our new delphic voices...so influential has their branch of science become that our time might well be called the "Age of Ecology".”

Men Years Wells Might Age Voice Impossible Areas Scientist Relation Our Time Branches Ecology Influential Referring Commoners

Author:Rachel Carson

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Book:The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962

Source: The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962

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Book:The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers

Source: The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers

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Book:The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962

Source: The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962