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Environment Quotes by Rachel Carson
- For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of…
- There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to…
- Those who love and free nature are never alone.
- Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.
- If having endured much, we at last asserted our 'right to know' and if, knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take…
- I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.
- Is it reasonable to suppose that we can apply a broad-spectrum insecticide to kill the burrowing larval stages of a crop-destroying insect ... without also…
- As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
- We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then, can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals we disseminate widely…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for…
- In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
- One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never…
- Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
More Environment Quotes
- The simplest things are often the truest. — Richard Bach
- We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible… — M H Abrams
- An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. — David Attenborough
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural… — David Attenborough
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon
- As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved… — Diane Ackerman
- Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. — Richard Bach
- Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. — Francis Bacon
- We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. — Francis Bacon