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If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it.

Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder

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Carson wrote this about her grand-nephew Roger, whom she carried down to the Maine shore at night, in the rain, to watch the surf and the ghost crabs. She was a marine biologist who had already changed how the public saw the ocean, and would go on to write 'Silent Spring'. She was dying of breast cancer as she worked on this small book, and it appeared a year after her death in 1964.

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Aynı kart, başka bir dilde.

Bir çocuğun doğuştan getirdiği hayret duygusu sönmeyecekse, onu paylaşabilecek en az bir yetişkinin arkadaşlığına ihtiyacı vardır.
Rachel Carson, Hayret Duygusu

Carson bunu, kucağında Maine kıyısına indirdiği yeğeninin oğlu Roger için yazdı; geceleri, yağmurda, dalgaları ve hayalet yengeçleri izlemeye giderlerdi. Deniz biyoloğuydu; okurun okyanusa bakışını çoktan değiştirmişti ve sonra 'Sessiz Bahar'ı yazacaktı. Bu küçük kitap üzerinde çalışırken meme kanseriyle boğuşuyordu; kitap, 1964'teki ölümünden bir yıl sonra yayımlandı.

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