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To have risked so much in our efforts to mold nature to our satisfaction and yet to have failed in achieving our goal would indeed by the final irony. Yet this, it seems, is our situation. - Rachel Carson

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Name: Rachel Carson
Born: 27 May 1907. Died: 14 April 1964
Profession: Biologist | Author | Environmentalist |

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To have risked so much in our efforts to mold nature to our satisfaction and yet to have failed in achieving our goal would indeed by the final irony. Yet this, it seems, is our situation.

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Rachel Carson quotes

Author's Biography:
Name: Rachel Carson
Born: 27 May 1907. Died: 14 April 1964
Profession: Biologist | Author | Environmentalist |

Related Authors
James Watson | Stephen Jay Gould | Jean Rostand | Louis Pasteur | Arianna Huffington | Arundhati Roy |

Virtue is the health of the soul.

When the content of the Bible is believed, comprehended, understood and applied, it results in earth shaking profits.

Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

Truth never pleads or compromises or wavers. It invites and awaits your acceptance.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.

Law 16: Use absence to increase respect and honor

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

Conscience is a man's compass.

When you borrow from a friend, repayment is the friendship.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

To have risked so much in our efforts to mold nature to our satisfaction and yet to have failed in achieving our goal would indeed by the final irony. Yet this, it seems, is our situation. - A. C. Benson quotes

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To have risked so much in our efforts to mold nature to our satisfaction and yet to have failed in achieving our goal would indeed by the final irony. Yet this, it seems, is our situation.

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Rachel Carson quotes

Author's Biography: Name: Rachel Carson Born: 27 May 1907. Died: 14 April 1964 Profession: Biologist | Author | Environmentalist |

Related Authors James Watson | Stephen Jay Gould | Jean Rostand | Louis Pasteur | Arianna Huffington | Arundhati Roy |

Virtue is the health of the soul.

When the content of the Bible is believed, comprehended, understood and applied, it results in earth shaking profits.

Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

Truth never pleads or compromises or wavers. It invites and awaits your acceptance.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.

Law 16: Use absence to increase respect and honor

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

Conscience is a man's compass.

When you borrow from a friend, repayment is the friendship.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

To have risked so much in our efforts to mold nature to our satisfaction and yet to have failed in achieving our goal would indeed by the final irony. Yet this, it seems, is our situation. - A. C. Benson quotes

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Author's Biography:
Name: Rachel Carson
Born: 27 May 1907. Died: 14 April 1964
Profession: Biologist | Author | Environmentalist |

Related Authors
James Watson | Stephen Jay Gould | Jean Rostand | Louis Pasteur | Arianna Huffington | Arundhati Roy |