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
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.
memories women smell
For 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.
song joy quality
Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
beautiful children world
A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
ocean sea yesterday
the sea is a place of mystery. One by one, the mysteries of yesterday have been solved. But the solution seems always to bring with it another, perhaps a deeper mystery. I doubt that the last, final mysteries of the sea will ever be resolved. In fact, I cherish a very unscientific hope that they will not be.
men years voice
In recent years it has become impossible to talk about man's relation to nature without referring to "ecology"...such leading scientists in this area as Rachel Carson, Barry Commoner, Eugene Odum, Paul Ehrlich and others, have become our new delphic voices...so influential has their branch of science become that our time might well be called the "Age of Ecology".
healthy essentials may
Is it reasonable to suppose that we can apply a broad-spectrum insecticide to kill the burrowing larval stages of a crop-destroying insect ... without also killing the 'good' insects whose function may be the essential one of breaking down organic matter and maintaining healthy soil?
summer night august
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.
weed attitude may
Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any reason we find its presence undesirable or merely a matter of indifference, we may condemn it to destruction forthwith.