The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves. — 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
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 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
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
Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is -- whether its victim is human or animal -- we… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much better in this… — 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
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 yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our major concern is no longer with the disease organisms that once were omnipresent; sanitation, better living conditions, and new drugs have given us a high degree of control over infectious disease. Today we are concerned with a different… — Rachel Carson Copy Share
It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh... Even the streams were now lifeless... No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of… — Rachel Carson Copy Share
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
