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Quotes from Preface to Humane Biology Projects — Rachel Carson

1907–1964 United States

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I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future.

Preface to Humane Biology Projects (1961)

Any concept of biology is not only sterile and profitless, it is distorted and untrue, if it puts its primary focus on unnatural conditions rather than on those vast forces not of man's making that shape and channel the nature and direction of life.

Preface to Humane Biology Projects (1961)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Rachel Carson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.