The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
RACHEL CARSONThe Choice, after all, is ours to make.
RACHEL CARSONKnowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
RACHEL CARSONThe road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.
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 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 CARSONThose who love and free nature are never alone.
RACHEL CARSONWhen we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself – the primeval meeting place of the elements of earth and water, a place of compromise and conflit and eternal change.
RACHEL CARSONOnly as a child’s awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.
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 CARSONThe human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
RACHEL CARSONThe question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.
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 CARSONDrink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
RACHEL CARSONConservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.
RACHEL CARSONThe discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
RACHEL CARSONIn an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.
RACHEL CARSON