All Rachel Carson Quotes
- Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction. Destruction
- Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished. Cause
- We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man… All
- Beginnings are apt to be shadowy. Apt
- When any living thing has come to the end of its cycle, we accept that end as natural. When that intangible cycle has run its… Accept
- Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective. Change
- We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of human beings, isolated… Age
- The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth - soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife. Earth
- I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to 'know' as to… Believe
- For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end. All
- Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same… All
- There is certainly no single remedy for this condition and I am offering no panacea. But it seems reasonable to believe — and I do… Attention
- The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, . . . when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man… Alarming
- In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead… All
- If I had influence with the good fairy... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder… Ask
- Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see. Beauty
- I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever we substitute something… Any
- And so in my mind's eye these coastal forms merge and blend in a shifting, kaleidoscopic pattern in which there is no finality, no ultimate… Becoming
- Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of ecological… All
- Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea. Apt
- Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of… Acquired
- It is not half so important to know as to feel. Feel
- Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life. Alone
- If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it,… Adult
- If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift… Alienation