To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
RACHEL CARSONTo understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
RACHEL CARSONNowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect; each living thing is bound to its world by many threads, weaving the intricate design of the fabric of life.
RACHEL CARSONThe edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
RACHEL CARSON[Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible. For me that usually means many, many revisions.
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 Choice, after all, is ours to make.
RACHEL CARSONBut man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
RACHEL CARSONI am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
RACHEL CARSONWe still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven’t become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe.
RACHEL CARSONLike the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.
RACHEL CARSONThose who love and free nature are never alone.
RACHEL CARSONAs crude a weapon as a cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
RACHEL CARSONI like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life – past, present, and future.
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 CARSONBeginnings are apt to be shadowy.
RACHEL CARSONWe cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
RACHEL CARSON