Rachel Carson, Silent Spring Quotes

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?

To have risked so much in our efforts to mold nature to our satisfaction and yet to have failed in achieving our goal would indeed by the final irony. Yet this, it seems, is our situation.

She could not be silent even if the men of science, many of them smug experts in white lab coats who promised “better living through chemistry, ” dismissed her warnings as feminine hysteria.