QotD: Nature

Sep 14, 2011 08:50

Man's attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature.
But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself...
--Rachel Carson, 1963

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calizen September 17 2011, 15:54:28 UTC
Love that woman. She really was the writer who changed a lot of us into environmentalists long before it was fashionable to think that way.

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liveonearth September 17 2011, 21:39:11 UTC
Sure isn't fashionable anymore...

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