Rachel Carson Quotes

I am always more interested in what I am about to do than in what I have already done.

If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impression...

If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all childr...

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us th...

The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, ...

The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literatur...

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem they are...

For the sense of smell almost more than any other has the power to recall memories and it is a pit...

A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune ...

For the first time in the history of the world every human being is now subjected to contact with d...

If a child is too keep alive his inborn sense of wonder ... he needs the companionship of at least o...

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies he ne...

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future. T...

By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not dimini...

Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much ...

The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majest...

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe, the less t...

Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the ...

In every out-thrust headland in every curving beach in every grain of sand there is the story of ...

It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and ...

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as ...

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of ...

A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full or wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune ...

For most of us, knowledge of our world comes largely through sight, yet we look about with such unse...

With these surface waters, through a series of delicately adjusted, interlocking relationship, the l...

The next time you stand on a beach at night, watching the moon’s bright path across the water, and t...

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the ...

Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himsel...

Eventually man, too, found his way back to the sea. Standing on its shores, he must have looked out ...

A Who's Who of pesticides is therefore of concern to us all. If we are going to live so intimately w...

To have risked so much in our efforts to mold nature to our satisfaction and yet to have failed in a...

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as ...

We are accustomed to look for the gross and immediate effects and to ignore all else. Unless this ap...

If, having endured much, we have at last asserted out "right to know," and if by knowing, we have co...

Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or ...

Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquainta...

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

Those who dwell , as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never a...

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, t...