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"If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift 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 of things artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength." ~ Rachel Carson in The Sense of Wonder.


"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 in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter." ~Rachel Carson in Silent Spring.