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“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.”

— Rachel Carson

The Sense of Wonder

From Carson's 1965 book The Sense of Wonder, arguing that attention to beauty is an antidote to destruction.

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