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Rachel Carson · 1941
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What this book knows
The sea's creatures live and die by their own ancient logic, indifferent to human witness—and that indifference is the deepest truth about nature.
embodiment
He was obviously an unfinished little fish. The gill slits were marked out but were not cut through to the throat, so were useless for breathing.
CARS-USW-RC-059Under the warm May sun the new young cells of the egg were stirred to furious activity—growing, dividing, differentiating into cell layers and tissues and organs.
CARS-USW-RC-057mortality
The sea will care for their young, as it cares for the young of all other fishes, and of oysters and crabs and starfish, of worms and jellyfish and barnacles.
CARS-USW-RC-054From this journey they never returned, but their young, arriving from the sea, carried on the life of the species.
CARS-USW-RC-038trauma-and-survival
Two small birds, dazed and sick with buffeting, staggered over the sand, fell, and staggered on again. Land was to them a strange realm.
CARS-USW-RC-021The older sanderlings, patient in the acceptance of hardship, waited until the ebb tide, leading the younger birds to the edge of the harbor ice.
CARS-USW-RC-0276 published passages · book excerpt · research analysis
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