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Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of e...more

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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.....more

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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 force...more

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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 ...more

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For the first time in the history of the world every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals from the moment of conception ...more

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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 the destruction of ...more

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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. Whatever the vexations and ...more

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As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life - a fabric on the one hand delicate and dest...more

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Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of m...more

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If, having endured much, we have at last asserted out "right to know," and if by knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless ...more

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We are accustomed to look for the gross and immediate effects and to ignore all else. Unless this appears promptly and in such obvious form that it ca...more

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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 ...more

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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....more

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A Who's Who of pesticides is therefore of concern to us all. If we are going to live so intimately with these chemicals eating and drinking them, taki...more

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For most of us, knowledge of our world comes largely through sight, yet we look about with such unseeing eyes that we are partially blind. One way to ...more