Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. — 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
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
There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings Then… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find resources of strength that will endure as long as life lasts — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
When any living thing has come to the end of its cycle, we accept that end as natural. When that intangible cycle… — 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
Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life. — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life. — 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.… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?” — 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
