Rachel Carson Famous Quotes



The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.

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

"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."

"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."

"Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea."


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The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their 'luck' arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.
Srully D Blotnick

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
Salvador Dali

"Never follow somebody else's path it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone...the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way."
J Michael Straczynski

It is the rare fortuene of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
Cornelius Tacitus

"If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third."
Cicero

"You're searching, Joe, for things that don't exist I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings-there are no such things."
Robert Frost

"My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right"
Charles Monroe Schultz

I am responsible only to God and history.
Francisco El Caudillo Franco

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.
Unknown

"Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood."
Kahlil Gibran