Rachel Carson Quotes

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

Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.

We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.

One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, “What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?

Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.

Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.

Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we’re challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves.

But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.

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.

In nature nothing exists alone.

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.

The most alarming of all man’s assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.