Always, Rachel Quotes

“The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical.… To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms—this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.”
― Rachel Carson, Always, Rachel: The Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, 1952–1964

“Now it is Christmas Eve and we are alone together, for I am there in your heart as truly as if I were actually present. You have been looking forward to this little interval of peace and quiet; you see, I know that without being told. And of course that is one of the most precious and wonderful things that has come into being during the past year—that each of us can know, with unquestioning certainty, the sort of thoughts and feelings that are filling the mind and heart of the other.”
― Rachel Carson, Always, Rachel: The Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, 1952–1964