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“The earth’s vegetation is part of a web of life in which there are intimate and essential relations between plants and animals. Sometimes we have no choice but to disturb these relationships, but we should do so thoughtfully, with full awareness that what we do may have consequences remote in time and place.”
from Silent Spring by Rachel Carson pg. 64
02 Aug 2007 Comments Off on Silent Spring
in environment, personification, pesticides, Silent Spring
“It is not possible to add pesticides to water anywhere without threatening the purity of water everywhere. Seldom if ever does Nature operate in closed and separate compartments, and she has not done so in distributing the earth’s water supply.”
from Silent Spring by Rachel Carson pg. 42
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