Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these fo Rachel Carson
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst...
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Isaac Newton
To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.
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Evelyn Fox Keller
The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.
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Unknown
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
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Alice James
If time be judiciously employed, there is time for everything.
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George Head
More Quotes By Rachel Carson
Here and there one sees the blush of wild rose haws or the warmth of orange fruit on the bittersweet, and back in the woods is the occasional twinkle of partridgeberries. But they are the gem stones, the rare decorations which make the grays, the...
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
In a painful time of my life I went often to a wooded hillside where May apples grew by the hundreds, and I thought the sourness of their fruit had a symbolism for me. Instead, I was to find both love and happiness soon thereafter....
Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.
Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable...the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street...by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese.
