rachel carson

“ The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized. ”

“ This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible. ”

“ The fabric of life on the one hand delicate and destructible, on the other miraculously tough and resilient, and capable of striking back in unexpected ways. ”

“ A childs world is fresh and new and beautiful, full or wonder and excitement. ”

“ In nature, nothing exists alone. ”

“ The entomologist's dream of the built-in insecticide was born when workers in the field of applied entomology realized they could take a hint from nature: they found that wheat growing in soil containing sodium selenate was immune to attack by aphids or spider mites. ”

“ The choice, after all, is ours to make. ”

“ It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. ”

“ In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little-recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world-the very nature of its life. ”

“ By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished? ”