Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole… — 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
“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
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
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
Nothing is wasted in the sea; every particle of material is used over and over again, first by one creature, then by… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no… — 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
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
To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of… — 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
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea. — 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
The ocean is a place of paradoxes. It is the home of the great white shark, two-thousand-pound killer of the seas, 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
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
the sea is a place of mystery. One by one, the mysteries of yesterday have been solved. But the solution seems always… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to… — 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
