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
Darling -- I suppose the world would consider us absolutely crazy, but it is wonderful to feel that way, isn't it? Sort… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life - a… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Play, Incorporating Animistic and Magical Thinking Is Important Because It: Fosters the healthy, creative and emotional growth of a child; Forms the… — 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… — 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 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
Short version: For the child. . ., it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the… — 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
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
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
Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction. — Rachel Carson Copy Share
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
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
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
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
“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
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her… — Rachel Carson Copy Share
Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely… — Rachel Carson Copy Share
I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future. — Rachel Carson Copy Share
