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To have risked so much in our efforts to mold nature to our satisfaction and yet to have failed in achieving our goal would indeed by the final irony. Yet this, it seems, is our situation.
To have risked so much in our efforts to mold nature to our satisfaction and yet to have failed in achieving our goal would indeed by the final irony. Yet this, it seems, is our situation.
Approximate author period: c. 1935 AD · modern
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- Rachel Carson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1935 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Rachel Carson: life dates 1907 to 1964. Wikidata Q100948, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100948 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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