Rachel Carson quotes

" Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life. " # Life and Living # Beauty # Love

" Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. " # Beauty # Character # Life and Living

" As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life. " # America

" Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea. " # Love # Mothers # Death and Dying

" The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him. " # Writers and Writing # Discipline # Learning

" For each of us, as for the robin in Michigan or the Salmon in the Miramichi, this is a problem of ecology, of interrelationships, of interdependence. We poison the caddis flies in a stream and the salmon runs dwindle and die. We poison the gnats in a lake and the poison travels from link to link of the food chain and soon the birds of the lake margins become its victims. We spray our elms and the following springs are silent of robin song, not because we sprayed the robins directly but because the poison traveled, step by step, through the now familiar elm leaf-earthworm-robin cycle. These are matters of record, observable, part of the visible world around us. They reflect the web of life — or death — that scientists know as ecology. " # Age and Aging

" To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feelthe breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of year, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be. " # Profits

" These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes — nonselective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect, the "good" and the "bad," to still the song of birds and the leaping of fish in the streams, to coat the leaves with a deadly film, and to linger on in soil — all this though the intended target may be only a few weeds or insects. Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called "insecticides," but "biocides." " # America

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

" If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, 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. " # Imagination # Life and Living # Happiness