Believe Quote by Rachel Carson

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…

— Rachel Carson

Oceans, rivers, lakes, and streams, have all been touched by man. The poison floating out to sea, now threatens life on land.

— The Beach Boys

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…

— Rachel Carson

We've had a century in which we've allowed some industries to basically pollute the air, pollute the water, pollute the ground, pollute the rivers,…

— David Rosner

A Who's Who of pesticides is therefore of concern to us all. If we are going to live so intimately with these chemicals eating…

— Rachel Carson

No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction…

— Derrick Jensen

My understanding has always been that if there is any indication that pesticides are harmful, that they would not be allowed to be used.

— George Deukmejian

“What if the mosquitos are converting the pesticide to a weak form of pyrethrums, a poison to people?”

— James Frazee

The world's deadliest poison, can be your own thoughts.

— David L. Felten

When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the…

— Paul Hawken

We've poured our poisons into the world as though it were a bottomless pit.. and we go on gobbling them up. It's hard to…

— Daniel Quinn

The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson