The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.
Rachel CarsonThe procedure has a strange Alice-in-Wonderland quality. The reservoir was created as a public water supply, yet the community, probably unconsulted about the sportsmen's project, is forced either to drink water containing poisonous residues or to pay our tax money for treatment of the water to remove the poisons - treatments that are by no means foolproof.
Rachel CarsonOnly within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.
Rachel Carson