In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
RACHEL CARSONI like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life – past, present, and future.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.
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Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may glow with sheets of cold fire, while below schools of fish pour through the water like molten metal.
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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
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Only 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.
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Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.
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For 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.
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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
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We 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.
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I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life – past, present, and future.
RACHEL CARSON