Rachel Carson Quotes (23 Quotes)

I wanted to make my own mark.

If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life

an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make money, at whatever cost to others, is seldom challenged.

The ocean is a place of paradoxes.

It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks... the public must decide whether it wishes to continueon the present road and it can only do sowhen in full possession of the facts...

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

Because I was providing parts that weren't available anywhere in the world, within two years it became international and in the last four years I think I've penetrated 23 countries.

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road -- the one less traveled by -- offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.

In every out thrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is a story of the earth.

Under the philosophy that now seems to guide our destinies, nothing must get in the way of the man with the spray gun.

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that we use it so little.

Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.

To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feelthe breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of year, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.

Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world.

One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.

My companion and I were alone with the stars the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky, the patterns of the constellations standing out bright and clear, a blazing planet low on the horizon.

As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life

No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.

If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.

They'll save their own habitat and save the beauty of our natural areas.