black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

In 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

Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.
RACHEL CARSON

Alone Inspirational Life Mystery Nature Peace
It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.
RACHEL CARSON

Change Existence Life Ocean Science Sea
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Alive Children Discover Excitement Family Life Live Motivational Mystery World
By suggestion and example, I believe children can be helped to hear the many voices about them. Take Time to listen and talk about the voices of the earth and what they mean-the majestic voice of thunder, the winds, the sound of surf or flowing streams.
RACHEL CARSON

Believe Children Help Listening Myself Nature Time Voice
Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land, now to the sea.
RACHEL CARSON

Boundary Change Nature Ocean Sea
We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
RACHEL CARSON

Heart Life Peace
Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species — man — acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.
RACHEL CARSON

Change Men Nature
If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.
RACHEL CARSON

Book Leaving Poetry Sea Truth Writing
I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
RACHEL CARSON

Future Myself Past
There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life – we are never bored.
RACHEL CARSON

Boredom Character Deal Life Oneself Quality Science
The ‘control of nature’ is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.
RACHEL CARSON

Age Born Control Existence Men Nature Philosophy
Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides.
RACHEL CARSON

Believe Environmental Poison
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Beautiful Herself Humility Nature Necessary Wonderful
We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life.
RACHEL CARSON

Civilization Important Life Man Ourselves True
In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
RACHEL CARSON

Nature Space Spiritual Story
As crude a weapon as a cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
RACHEL CARSON

Earth Day Fabric Of Life Men

In 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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

In 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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Rachel Carson Quotes