In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
Rachel CarsonThe more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
Rachel CarsonThere is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored.
Rachel CarsonThe shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water.
Rachel CarsonAs crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life - a fabric on the one hand delicate and destructible, on the other miraculously tough and resilient, and capable of striking back in unexpected ways. These extraordinary capacities of life have been ignored by the practitioners of chemical control who have brought to their task no "high-minded orientation," no humility before the vast forces with which they tamper.
Rachel Carson