Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
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.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
-
-
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
RACHEL CARSON -
Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.
RACHEL CARSON -
In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
RACHEL CARSON -
Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
RACHEL CARSON -
A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.
RACHEL CARSON -
Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
RACHEL CARSON -
A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
RACHEL CARSON -
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 -
The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
RACHEL CARSON -
For 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 CARSON -
The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
RACHEL CARSON -
Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
RACHEL CARSON -
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 -
Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
RACHEL CARSON -
The 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 CARSON