But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself. — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber. — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe, the less taste we shall have… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place… — 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… — 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
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties… — 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
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
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
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
Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we're challenged, as mankind… — 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 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, . . . when it was supposed that nature exists for 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
“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
“A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth - soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife. — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth. — 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
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
When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself - the… — 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
And so in my mind's eye these coastal forms merge and blend in a shifting, kaleidoscopic pattern in which there is no… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them,… — 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
The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife. To utilize them… — 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
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
