"In these troubled times it is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility."
— Wonder

January 1, 1970

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Rachel Carson "The Exceeding Beauty of the World" (Words to Live by), This Week (1952), quoted in Karen F. Stein, Rachel Carson: Challenging Authors (Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2012), p. 54.