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Ian O’Shaughnessy

Quotes · Rachel Carson

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is symbolic, as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for the spring. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”

– Rachel Carson, quoted in the John Denver Sanctuary, Aspen, CO.

From volume IX of the file · Book · 20th century

Themes: beauty & art · hope & despair · wilderness