Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson
Rachel Louise Carsonwas an American marine biologist and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement...
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth27 May 1907
CitySpringdale, PA
radiation environment chemicals
We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then, can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals we disseminate widely in our environment?
garden views years
To the bird watcher, the suburbanite who derives joy from birds in his garden, the hunter, the fisherman or the explorer of wild regions, anything that destroys the wildlife of an area for even a single year has deprived him of pleasure to which he has a legitimate right. This is a valid point of view.
mystery threshold greater
Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
vision demand accepting
Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
book important use
The more I learned about the use of pesticides, the more appalled I became. I realized that here was the material for a book. What I discovered was that everything which meant most to me as a naturalist was being threatened, and that nothing I could do would be more important.
mean water community
The 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.
war animal men
Along 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.
past promise remember
To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
speaks-out knowing people
Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent... It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people...
arrogance phrases neanderthals
The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
sea land water
The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water.
years childhood soil
The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
reality men vanity
We have looked first at man with his vanities and greed and his problems of a day or a year; and then only, and from this biased point of view, we have looked outward at the earth he has inhabited so briefly and at the universe in which our earth is so minute a part. Yet these are the great realities, and against them we see our human problems in a different perspective. Perhaps if we reversed the telescope and looked at man down these long vistas, we should find less time and inclination to plan for our own destruction.
reality
Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.