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
sea fundamentals mysterious
Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.
our-world knowing risk
If having endured much, we at last asserted our 'right to know' and if, knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals, we should look around and see what other course is open to us.
nature healing wilderness
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
beach nature ocean
In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
nature ocean sea
For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.
ocean water tides
There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.
eras problem fit
This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits.
important half silent-spring
It is not half so important to know as to feel.
science bored quality
There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored.
ocean men whales
Eventually man, too, found his way back to the sea. Standing on its shores, he must have looked out upon it with wonder and curiosity, compounded with an unconscious recognition of his lineage. He could not physically re-enter the ocean as the seals and whales had done. But over the centuries, with all the skill and ingenuity and reasoning powers of his mind, he has sought to explore and investigate even its most remote parts, so that he might re-enter it mentally and imaginatively.
believe mind trying
The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind - that, and anger at the senseless, brutish things that were being done. . . . Now I can believe I have at least helped a little.
morning spring heart
There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings Then a strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change There was a strange stillness The few birds seen anywhere were moribund; they trembled violently and could not fly. It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of scores of bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh.
heart animal men
We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
knowing would-be silent
Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.