Rachel Carson Quotes
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As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
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Nowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect; each living thing is bound to its world by many threads, weaving the intricate design of the fabric of life.
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Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these forces.
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A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
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The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.
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If I had influence with the good fairy... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.
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When any living thing has come to the end of its cycle, we accept that end as natural. When that intangible cycle has run its course it is a natural and not unhappy thing that a life comes to its end.
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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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the sea is a place of mystery. One by one, the mysteries of yesterday have been solved. But the solution seems always to bring with it another, perhaps a deeper mystery. I doubt that the last, final mysteries of the sea will ever be resolved. In fact, I cherish a very unscientific hope that they will not be.
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A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.
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This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits.
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Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.
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Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.
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The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth - soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
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For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.
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There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored.
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A Who's Who of pesticides is therefore of concern to us all. If we are going to live so intimately with these chemicals eating and drinking them, taking them into the very marrow of our bones - we had better know something about their nature and their power.
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The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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Nothing is wasted in the sea; every particle of material is used over and over again, first by one creature, then by another. And when in spring the waters are deeply stirred, the warm bottom water brings to the surface a rich supply of minerals, ready for use by new forms of life.
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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.