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Vote:   | A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement... (I would ask for) each child in the world... a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against... the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength. |
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Vote: | All these small creatures are working - working in sun and rain, during the hours of darkness, even when winter's grip has dampened down the fires of life to mere embers. Then this vital force is merely smoldering, awaiting the time to flare again into activity when spring awakens the insect world. |
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Vote: | Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea. |
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Vote: | For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | I can remember no time, even in earliest childhood, when I didn't assume I was going to be a writer. Also, I can remember no time when I wasn't interested in the out-of-doors and the whole world of nature. Those interests, I know, I inherited from my mother and have always shared with her. |
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Vote: | I read a great deal almost from infancy, and I suppose I must have realized someone wrote the books, and thought it would be fun to make up stories too. |
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Vote: | If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | In each of my books I have tried to say that all the life of the planet is inter-related, that each species has its own ties to others, and that all are related to earth. This is the theme of The Sea Around Us and the other sea books, and it is also the message of Silent Spring. |
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Vote: | In every out-thrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is a story of the earth. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | It's all of a piece. Thalidomide and pesticides - they represent our willingness to rush ahead and use something new without knowing what the results are going to be. |
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Vote: | Man's attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. |
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Vote: | Not only does nature sustain us physically, it can also engender in us, if we allow it, a... sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against .. alienation from the sources of our strength. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | 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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Vote: | Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | 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. |