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title: "2 Sinister Quotes By Rachel Carson"
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> [It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/it-is-a-curious-situation-that-the-sea-from-which-life-first-arose/)

[Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/)

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> [The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/the-most-alarming-of-all-man-s-assaults-upon-the-environment-is-the-2/)

[Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/)

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## Other authors on Sinister

## More by Rachel Carson

> [It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/it-was-a-spring-without-voices-on-the-mornings-that-had-once-throbbed/)

[Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/)

> [When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself - the primeval meeting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/when-we-go-down-to-the-low-tide-line-we-enter-a-world-that-is-as-old/)

[Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/)

> [There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/there-is-no-drop-of-water-in-the-ocean-not-even-in-the-deepest-parts/)

[Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/)

> [The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/the-control-of-nature-is-a-phrase-conceived-in-arrogance/)

[Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/)

> [Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/wonder-and-humility-are-wholesome-emotions-and-they-do-not-exist-side/)

[Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/)

> [Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/only-within-the-20th-century-has-biological-thought-been-focused-on/)

[Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/)

> [It is not half so important to know as to feel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/it-is-not-half-so-important-to-know-as-to-feel/)

[Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/)

> [The Choice, after all, is ours to make.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/the-choice-after-all-is-ours-to-make/)

[Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/now-i-truly-believe-that-we-in-this-generation-must-come-to-terms/)

[Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/)

> [Any concept of biology is not only sterile and profitless, it is distorted and untrue, if it puts its primary focus on unnatural conditions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/any-concept-of-biology-is-not-only-sterile-and-profitless-it-is/)

[Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/)

> [Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/autumn-comes-to-the-sea-with-a-fresh-blaze-of-phosphorescence-when/)

[Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/)

> [“The sea is blue because the sunlight is reflected back to our eyes from the water molecules or from very minute particles suspended in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/the-sea-is-blue-because-the-sunlight-is-reflected-back-to-our-eyes/)

[Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/)

> [If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/if-i-had-influence-with-the-good-fairy-who-is-supposed-to-preside/)

[Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/)

> [Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/over-increasingly-large-areas-of-the-united-states-spring-now-comes/)

[Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/)

> [I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-carson/i-like-to-define-biology-as-the-history-of-the-earth-and-all-its-life/)

[Rachel Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-carson/)

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