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 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
“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 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature. — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
