Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment.… — 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… — 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
I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future. — 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
Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Nothing is wasted in the sea; every particle of material is used over and over again, first by one creature, then by… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves. — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Nowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect; each… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future. To understand… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature. — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
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
Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past. — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience. — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea. — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Those who contemplate the… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is… — 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
The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind - that, and anger… — 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
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