Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself - the… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
And so in my mind's eye these coastal forms merge and blend in a shifting, kaleidoscopic pattern in which there is no… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
We are challenged as mankind has never been challenged before to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
We have been troubled about the world, and had almost lost faith in man; it helps to think about the long history… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them,… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Along with the possibility of extinction of mankind by nuclear war, the central problem of our age has therefore become the contamination… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife. To utilize them… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
If having endured much, we at last asserted our 'right to know' and if, knowing, we have concluded that we are being… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
In recent years it has become impossible to talk about man's relation to nature without referring to "ecology"...such leading scientists in this… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and… — Rachel Carson Copy Share
When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself - the primeval meeting… — Rachel Carson Copy Share
There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond… — Rachel Carson Copy Share
Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction. — Rachel Carson Copy Share
Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of… — Rachel Carson Copy Share
Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we're challenged, as mankind has never… — Rachel Carson Copy Share
Any concept of biology is not only sterile and profitless, it is distorted and untrue, if it puts its primary focus on unnatural conditions… — Rachel Carson Copy Share
Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may… — Rachel Carson Copy Share
“The sea is blue because the sunlight is reflected back to our eyes from the water molecules or from very minute particles suspended in… — Rachel Carson Copy Share
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her… — Rachel Carson Copy Share
Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely… — Rachel Carson Copy Share
I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future. — Rachel Carson Copy Share
