Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.
Rachel CarsonWe cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
Rachel CarsonFor the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.
Rachel CarsonAlong with the possibility of extinction of mankind by nuclear war, the central problem of our age has therefore become the contamination of man's total environment with such substances of incredible potential for harm-substances that accumulate in the tissues of plants and animals and even penetrate the germ cells to shatter or alter the very material of heredity upon which the shape of the future depends.
Rachel Carson