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
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I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life past, present, and future. To understand biology is to understand that all life is linked to the earth from which it came; it is to understand that the stream of life, flowing out of the dim past into the uncertain future, is in reality a unified force, though composed of an infinite number and variety of separate lives.
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We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of human beings, isolated and priestlike in their laboratories. This is not true. The materials of science are the materials of life itself. Science is part of the reality of living; it is the way, the how and the why for everything in our experience.
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It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little headland would be thronged with spectators.
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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...
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They want to see you in front of them, shake hands or bow. Whereas domestically, you can get by using the Web or the phone for sales.
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They'll save their own habitat and save the beauty of our natural areas.
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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.
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an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make money, at whatever cost to others, is seldom challenged.
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Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man
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Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwise there was no reminder of human life.
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The ''control of nature'' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.
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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
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Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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I recognized the need for certain parts that were not available in the open market.