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
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
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature. — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves. — 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
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
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
We are challenged as mankind has never been challenged before to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we… — 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
We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The… — 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
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
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
“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
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 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
