A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. — 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
Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is-whether its victim is human or animal-we cannot expect things to be… — 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
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
No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves. — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
If I had influence with the good fairy... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a… — 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
Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings… — 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
“In Alabama, the Olin Corporation became embroiled over its production of DDT. Rachel Carson, in her book Silent Spring, had identified the… — Jane Mayer 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
To the bird watcher, the suburbanite who derives joy from birds in his garden, the hunter, the fisherman or the explorer of… — 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
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
These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes-nonselective chemicals that have the power to… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
It was Rachel Carson's famous book 'Silent Spring' that got me involved with the environment. I read it in The New Yorker,… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
“DISTURBED BY THE INDISCRIMINATE USE of synthetic chemical pesticides after the Second World War, aquatic biologist Rachel Carson reluctantly turned her focus… — Sheila Watt-Cloutier Copy Share Image
There is certainly no single remedy for this condition and I am offering no panacea. But it seems reasonable to believe —… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature. — 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
I remember as a child, my grandmother read to me Silent Spring. It was incomprehensible to me that there could be a… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
I encourage everyone to read James Baldwin and Malcom X and Aldous Huxley. To read Primo Levi. To read 'Silent Spring.' To… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
“Even in the wake of Rachel Carson's best-selling Silent Spring, Americans in 1963 spent nearly as much money fighting crabgrass with chemical… — Ted Steinberg 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
“Since the progressive doctrine of The Silent Spring was implemented, three million people have died of malaria every year for more than… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
[About reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, age 14, in the back seat of his parents' sedan. I almost threw up. I got… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
The procedure has a strange Alice-in-Wonderland quality. The reservoir was created as a public water supply, yet the community, probably unconsulted about… — 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
“Your generation is suffering from what for lack of a better word I shall call over-debunk . There was a lot of… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
“The media have indeed informed the public about threats to our air, water and food. Ever since 1962, when Rachel Carson published… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
