To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
Rachel CarsonThe shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water.
Rachel CarsonWhen we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself - the primeval meeting place of the elements of earth and water, a place of compromise and conflit and eternal change.
Rachel CarsonIf 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, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.
Rachel Carson