Quote by Rachel Carson
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and rea

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. – Rachel Carson

Other quotes by Rachel Carson

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. – Rachel Carson

Category:
Environment
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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. – Rachel Carson

Category:
Curiosity
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There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide. – Rachel Carson

Category:
Oceans
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Other Quotes from
Destruction
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It may be that we shall, by a process of sublime irony, have reached a stage in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation. – Sir Winston Churchill

Category:
Destruction

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. – Sir Winston Churchill

Category:
Destruction

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The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly… music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees. – Andres Segovia

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Since the majority of me
Rejects the majority of you,
Debating ends forthwith, and we
Divide. – Philip Larkin

Category:
Differences

My soul is not a palace of the past… – James Russell Lowell, “A Glance Behind the Curtain”

Category:
Past

None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond. – Lena Dunham

Category:
Family