Rachel Carson on why we must learn to sense nature’s wonders and realities

    We must if we are to stop destroying ourselves and the world, wrote Rachel Carson:

Mankind has gone very far into an artificial world of his own creation. He has sought to insulate himself, with steel and concrete, from the realities of earth and water. Perhaps he is intoxicated with his own power, as he goes farther and farther into experiments for the destruction of himself and his world. For this unhappy trend there is no single remedy – no panacea. But I believe that the more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. (Quoted in The Life of the Creative Spirit, p. 352.)
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