"Measured against the vast backdrop of geologic time, the whole era of man seems but a moment—but how portentous a moment!"
— Human

January 1, 1970

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Rachel Carson, Speech at Scripps College (June 1962), in Rachel Carson: Silent Spring & Other Writings on the Environment (2018)