Destruction Quote by Rachel Carson

It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and…

— Rachel Carson

When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself - the primeval meeting…

— Rachel Carson

There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond…

— Rachel Carson

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.

— Rachel Carson

Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of…

— Rachel Carson

It is not half so important to know as to feel.

— Rachel Carson

The Choice, after all, is ours to make.

— Rachel Carson

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…

— Rachel Carson

Any concept of biology is not only sterile and profitless, it is distorted and untrue, if it puts its primary focus on unnatural conditions…

— Rachel Carson

Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may…

— Rachel Carson

“The sea is blue because the sunlight is reflected back to our eyes from the water molecules or from very minute particles suspended in…

— Rachel Carson

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

— Rachel Carson