Quotes from Rachel Carson

The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.

At altitudes of 6000 to 16,000 feet, and with wind velocities reaching 45 miles an hour, many living insects have been taken.

Given time—time not in years but in millennia—life adjusts, and a balance has been reached. For time is the essential ingredient; but in the modern world there is no time.

Among the herbicides are some that are classified as 'mutagens' or agents capable of modifying the genes, the materials of heredity. We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals that we disseminate widely in our environment?

Ino the course of developing agents of chemical warfare, some of the chemicals created in the laboratory were found to be lethal to insects, The discovery did not come by chance: insects were widely used to test chemicals as agents of death for man.

The Eskimos began to make troublesome raids...

Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.

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. The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.

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

Those who contemplate the beauty of the Earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find resources of strength that will endure as long as life lasts

To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.

Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.

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.