# Quote — Rachel L Carson, The Sea Around Us

> 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.

- Author: [Rachel L Carson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rachel-l-carson.md)
- Book: [The Sea Around Us](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rachel-l-carson/the-sea-around-us.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/rachel-l-carson/the-sea-around-us/it-is-a-curious

## More from this book

> In our own lifetime we are witnessing a startling alteration of climate.

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> Day by day and season by season, the ocean dominates the world's climate.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rachel-l-carson/the-sea-around-us/day-by-day.md)

> F or the globe as a whole, the ocean is the great regulator, the great stabilizer of temperatures. It has been described as 'a savings bank for solar energy, receiving deposits in seasons of excessive insolation and paying them back in seasons of want. Without the ocean, our world would be visited by unthinkably harsh extremes of temperature.

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