Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.
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 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 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 CarsonThen the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
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