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“It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.”

— Rachel Carson

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

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