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“That night I thought about how love comes paired with failures, apologies for deficiencies. The only remedy is compassion.”
― Patricia Engel, Infinite Country

“If I lived by the sea I would never be really sad. I get an immense sense of eternity and peace from the ocean. I can lose myself in staring at it hour after hour.

--from a letter to Aurelia Plath, written c. July 1951”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume I: 1940-1956

“For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future. Shaped through long eons of evolution, our genes not only make us what we are, but hold in their minute beings the future—be it one of promise or threat.”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

“Nature herself has met many of the problems that now beset us, and she has usually solved them in her own successful way. Where man has been intelligent enough to observe and emulate Nature he, too, is often rewarded with success.”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring