The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
RACHEL CARSONThe human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
RACHEL CARSONBeginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
RACHEL CARSONConservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.
RACHEL CARSONEven in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.
RACHEL CARSONFor the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.
RACHEL CARSONKnowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
RACHEL CARSONOne summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.
RACHEL CARSONIt is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
RACHEL CARSONFor mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future… Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time.
RACHEL CARSONWonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
RACHEL CARSONAs crude a weapon as a cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
RACHEL CARSONEvery mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
RACHEL CARSONThe years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
RACHEL CARSONThen the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
RACHEL CARSONThe real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth – soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.
RACHEL CARSONBut man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
RACHEL CARSON