Rachel Carson
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"Rachel Louise Carson" was an American marine biology/marine biologist and conservation movement/conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.

Carson began her career as an aquatic biologist in the United States Fish and Wildlife Service/U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, and became a full-time nature writer in the 1950s. Her widely praised 1951 bestseller The Sea Around Us won her a U.S. National Book Award, recognition as a gifted writer, and financial security. Her next book, The Edge of the Sea, and the reissued version of her first book, Under the Sea Wind, were also bestsellers. This sea trilogy explores the whole of ocean life from the shores to the depths.

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In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.

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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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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find resources of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

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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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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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If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.

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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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