The ocean is a place of paradoxes. It is the home of the great white shark, two-thousand-pound killer of the seas, and of the hundred-foot blue whale, the largest animal that ever lived. It is also the home of living things so small that your two hands might scoop up as many of them as there are stars in the Milky Way.
Rachel CarsonIn every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
Rachel CarsonI still feel there is a case to be made for my old belief that as man approaches the 'new heaven and the new earth' -- or the space-age universe, if you will, he must do so with humility rather than with arrogance.
Rachel CarsonThose who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Rachel Carson