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
Eventually man, too, found his way back to the sea. Standing on its shores, he must have looked out upon it with… — 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
The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, . . . when it was supposed that nature exists for the… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself. — 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
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
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
Until we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot… — 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
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
As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life - a… — 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
In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along… — 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
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
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
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
It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an… — 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
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
We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part… — 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
