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There is not one little blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.
John Calvin1509–1564Sermon Number 10 on I Corinthians, 698. As quoted in John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait (1989) by William J. Bouwsma, pp. 134–135.
- Happiness
- Nature
For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.
John Calvin1509–1564Commentary on the Book of Genesis. Chapter I.
- God
In mathematics the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.
Georg Cantor1845–1918Doctoral thesis (De aequationibus secundi gradus indeterminatis, 1867)
In our own lifetime we are witnessing a startling alteration of climate.
Rachel Carson1907–1964The Sea Around Us (1951)
- Nature
The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.
Rachel Carson1907–1964Acceptance speech of the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1952) for The Sea Around Us
- Writing
Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.
Rachel Carson1907–1964Silent Spring (1962)
- Nature
Man’s attitude toward nature is today critically important, simply because of his new-found power to destroy it.
Rachel Carson1907–1964Speech at Scripps College (June 1962)
- Nature
Future generations are unlikely to condone our lack of prudent concern for the integrity of the natural world that supports all life.
Rachel Carson1907–1964Silent Spring (1962)
- Nature
I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future.
Rachel Carson1907–1964Preface to Humane Biology Projects (1961) by the Animal Welfare Institute
- Nature
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Rachel Carson1907–1964The Sense of Wonder (1965)
- Beauty
- Nature
Given time-time not in years but in millennia-life adjusts, and a balance has been reached. For time is the essential ingredient; but in the modern world there is no time.
Rachel Carson1907–1964Silent Spring (1962)
- Nature
- Time
Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called “insecticides,” but “biocides.”
Rachel Carson1907–1964Silent Spring (1962)
- Nature
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.
Rachel Carson1907–1964The Sense of Wonder (1965)
- Nature
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
Willa Cather1873–1947O Pioneers! (1913), Part II, Ch. 8
- Nature
We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it — for a little while.
Willa Cather1873–1947O Pioneers! (1913), Part V, Ch. 3
- Nature