253 Quotes by Rachel Carson

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

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

The sediments are a sort of epic poem of the earth.

Incidents like the eastern Illinois spraying raise a question that is not 9nly scientific but moral. The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.

As Albert Schweitzer has said, “Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future.

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.

Most of us walk unseeing through the world, unaware alike of its beauties, its wonders, and the strange and sometimes terrible intensity of the lives that are being lived about us.

Every grain of sand or silt carried out by the rivers and deposited at sea displaces a corresponding amount of water.