"There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of birds, in the ebb and flow of the tides; in the folded bud ready for the spring. There is something infinitely healing in these repeated refrains of nature-the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter."
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Rachel Carson Speech (1954) In Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson (1998)
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