--- title: "4 Awe Quotes By Rachel Carson" description: "4 Awe quotes by Rachel Carson. Plus more from Rachel Carson and more Awe sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d6/rachel-carson-2645_asks_if-i-had-influence-with-the-good-fairy-i_514962.jpg" --- > [If I had influence with the good fairy... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/if-i-had-influence-with-the-good-fairy-i-should-ask-that-her-gift-to/) [Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d6/rachel-carson-2645_asks_if-i-had-influence-with-the-good-fairy-i_514962.jpg) > [A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/a-child-s-world-is-fresh-and-new-and-beautiful-full-of-wonder-and-3/) [Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7f/rachel-carson-2645_adulthood_a-child-s-world-is-fresh-and-new-and-bea_1225117.jpg) > [If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/if-i-had-influence-with-the-good-fairy-who-is-supposed-to-preside-2/) [Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33d/rachel-carson-2645_alienation_if-i-had-influence-with-the-good-fairy-w_1916244.jpg) > [The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/the-more-clearly-we-can-focus-our-attention-on-the-wonders-and-3/) [Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f9/rachel-carson-2645_attention_the-more-clearly-we-can-focus-our-attent_3213530.png) ## Other authors on Awe - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-b-b-king-1507543-16033.jpg) Joseph P. 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On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/it-was-a-spring-without-voices-on-the-mornings-that-had-once-throbbed/) [Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/) > [When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself - the primeval meeting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/when-we-go-down-to-the-low-tide-line-we-enter-a-world-that-is-as-old/) [Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/) > [There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/there-is-no-drop-of-water-in-the-ocean-not-even-in-the-deepest-parts/) [Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/) > [The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/the-control-of-nature-is-a-phrase-conceived-in-arrogance/) [Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/) > [Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/wonder-and-humility-are-wholesome-emotions-and-they-do-not-exist-side/) [Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/) > [Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/only-within-the-20th-century-has-biological-thought-been-focused-on/) [Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/) > [It is not half so important to know as to feel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/it-is-not-half-so-important-to-know-as-to-feel/) [Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/) > [The Choice, after all, is ours to make.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/the-choice-after-all-is-ours-to-make/) [Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/now-i-truly-believe-that-we-in-this-generation-must-come-to-terms/) [Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/) > [Any concept of biology is not only sterile and profitless, it is distorted and untrue, if it puts its primary focus on unnatural conditions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/any-concept-of-biology-is-not-only-sterile-and-profitless-it-is/) [Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/) > [Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/autumn-comes-to-the-sea-with-a-fresh-blaze-of-phosphorescence-when/) [Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/) > [“The sea is blue because the sunlight is reflected back to our eyes from the water molecules or from very minute particles suspended in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/the-sea-is-blue-because-the-sunlight-is-reflected-back-to-our-eyes/) [Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/) > [If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/if-i-had-influence-with-the-good-fairy-who-is-supposed-to-preside/) [Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/) > [Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/over-increasingly-large-areas-of-the-united-states-spring-now-comes/) [Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/) > [I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/i-like-to-define-biology-as-the-history-of-the-earth-and-all-its-life/) [Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/awe/rachel-carson/#itemlist", "name": "4 Awe Quotes By Rachel Carson", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If I had influence with the good fairy... 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