Worth sharing again. And again and again.
🙏 Molly
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.
In nature nothing exists alone.
But man is a part of nature, and his war against
nature is inevitably a war against himself.
One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself,
"What if I had never seen this before?
What is I knew I would never see it again?"
It is a wholeness and necessary thing for us
to turn to the Earth and in contemplation of her
beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.
It is not half so important to know
as to feel.
The question is whether any civilization can wage
relentless war on life without destroying itself,
and without losing the right to be called civilized.
By acquiescing in an act that causes such
suffering to a living creature,
who among us is not diminished?
Until
we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is -- whether its
victim is human or animal -- we cannot expect things to be much better
in this world. We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in
killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even
tolerates such moronic delight in killing, we set back the progress of
humanity.
We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road — the one less traveled by — offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the Earth.
— Rachel Carson
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