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Quote by Rachel Carson

“Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.”

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Rachel Carson

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

“I ran into the gigantic and gigantically wasteful lumbering of great Sequoias, many of whose trunks were so huge they had to be blown apart before they could be handled. I resented then, and I still resent, the practice of making vine stakes hardly bigger than walking sticks out of these greatest of living things.”

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Author:Gifford Pinchot

“Both religion and natural science require a belief in God for their activities, to the former He is the starting point, and to the latter the goal of every thought process. To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view.”

Source: Scientific Autobiography: and Other Papers

“The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.”

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Book:John Muir: Nature Writings

Source: John Muir: Nature Writings

“We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay, coal, marl, sand, and iron, which are incumbent on them, are MONUMENTS OF THE PAST FELICITY OF ORGANIZED NATURE!”

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Book:Phytologia, or the philosophy of agriculture and gardening; with the theory of draining morasses and with an improved construction of the drill plough

Source: Phytologia, or the philosophy of agriculture and gardening; with the theory of draining morasses and with an improved construction of the drill plough

“Science does not mean an idle resting upon a body of certain knowledge; it means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an end which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but which the intellect can never fully grasp.”