“ Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species – man – acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world. ”
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“ 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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“ Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. ”
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“ It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility. ”
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“ If you write what you yourself sincerely think and feel and are interested in, the chances are very high that you will interest other people as well. ”
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“ It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility. ”
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“ Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. ”
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“ There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter. ”
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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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“ It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility. ”
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“ Some of nature’s most exquisite handiwork is on a miniature scale, as anyone knows who has applied a magnifying glass to a snowflake. ”
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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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“ But man is a part of nature and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself. ”
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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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“ 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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“ 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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“ The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves. ”
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“ Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species – man – acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature–the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter. ”
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“ It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself. ”
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“ The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science. ”
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“ We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. 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. The other fork of the road — the one less traveled by — offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth. ”
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“ The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities... 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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“ Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter. ”
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“ It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself. ”
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“ The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science. ”
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