All Rachel Carson Quotes
- For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future... Yet genetic… Agents
- 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 been… Been
- 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.… Air
- Who has the right to decide that the supreme value is a world without insects even though it would be a sterile world ungraced by… Authoritarian
- Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for… All
- 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. Air
- The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the… Amazing
- The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or… Aim
- Eventually man, too, found his way back to the sea. Standing on its shores, he must have looked out upon it with wonder and curiosity,… All
- It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged. Challenged
- How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease… Beings
- We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to… Asked
- These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes-nonselective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect,… Aerosols
- There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings Then a strange blight… All
- The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind - that, and anger at the senseless,… Anger
- Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our major concern is… Better
- But most of all I shall remember the monarchs, that unhurried westward drift of one small winged form after another, each drawn by some invisible… All
- The obligation to endure gives us the right to know. Endure
- No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves. Action
- By suggestion and example, I believe children can be helped to hear the many voices about them. Take Time to listen and talk about the… Believe
- Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent. Future
- I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done. Already Done
- The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him. Discipline
- The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies… Been
- Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Those who contemplate the beauty of the… Alone