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
believe thinking maturity
Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we're challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves.
past earth environment
I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.
spring sea water
Nothing is wasted in the sea; every particle of material is used over and over again, first by one creature, then by another. And when in spring the waters are deeply stirred, the warm bottom water brings to the surface a rich supply of minerals, ready for use by new forms of life.
beauty nature humility
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.
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.