“Any concept of biology is not only sterile and profitless, i…”

“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.”

— Rachel Carson

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Title: Wikiquote: Rachel Carson
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Context

Preface to Humane Biology Projects (1961) by the Animal Welfare Institute

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Carson, Rachel. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Rachel Carson. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson

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