Any concept of biology is not only sterile and profitless, it is distorted and untrue, if it puts its primary focus on… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
If I had influence with the good fairy... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent... It is, in the deepest sense,… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
I still feel there is a case to be made for my old belief that as man approaches the 'new heaven and… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the… — 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
We have looked first at man with his vanities and greed and his problems of a day or a year; and then… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent. — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Short version: For the child. . ., it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction. — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
