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Quotes from Acceptance speech of the National Book Award for Nonfiction — Rachel Carson

1907–1964 United States

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Perhaps if we reversed the telescope and looked at man down these long vistas, we should find less time and inclination to plan for our own destruction.

Acceptance speech of the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1952)

If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

Acceptance speech of the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1952)

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.

Acceptance speech of the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1952)

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