Rachel Carson Quotes
Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.
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.
I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to 'know' as to 'feel'.
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.
How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind?
For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.
No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.
This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits.
To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.
Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent... It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people.
The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
Darling -- I suppose the world would consider us absolutely crazy, but it is wonderful to feel that way, isn't it? Sort of a perpetual springtime in our hearts.
The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water.
But most of all I shall remember the monarchs, that unhurried westward drift of one small winged form after another, each drawn by some invisible force.
We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then, can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals we disseminate widely in our environment?
And so in my mind's eye these coastal forms merge and blend in a shifting, kaleidoscopic pattern in which there is no finality, no ultimate and fixed reality - earth becoming fluid as the sea itself.
Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
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.
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?
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.
It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons
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.
If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.
I am always more interested in what I am about to do than in what I have already done.
In every out-thrust headland in every curving beach in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
For the sense of smell almost more than any other has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that we use it so little.
