Rachel Carson

“From a ball of mud taken from a birds plumage, Charles Darwin raised 82 separate plants, belonging to five distinct species!”

— rachel carson

Until we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot…

— Rachel Carson

Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is -- whether its victim is human or animal -- we…

— Rachel Carson

We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of…

— Rachel Carson

In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.

— Rachel Carson

Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.

— Rachel Carson

I still feel there is a case to be made for my old belief that as man approaches the 'new heaven and…

— Rachel Carson

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.

— Rachel Carson

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Those who contemplate the…

— Rachel Carson

Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.

— Rachel Carson

The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place…

— Rachel Carson

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is…

— Rachel Carson

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

Those who love and free nature are never alone.

— Rachel Carson

“In the fish world many things are told by sound waves.”

— Rachel Carson

If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask…

— Rachel Carson

The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind - that, and anger…

— Rachel Carson

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the…

— Rachel Carson

The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at…

— Rachel Carson

Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject…

— Rachel Carson

One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and…

— Rachel Carson

Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.

— Rachel Carson

As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life - a…

— Rachel Carson

“Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject…

— Rachel Carson

How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the…

— Rachel Carson