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
reality long focus
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
eye reality sea
And so in my mind's eye these coastal forms merge and blend in a shifting, kaleidoscopic pattern in which there is no finality, no ultimate and fixed reality - earth becoming fluid as the sea itself.
past reality numbers
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.
believe humility reality
There is certainly no single remedy for this condition and I am offering no panacea. But it seems reasonable to believe — and I do believe — that 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 the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
reality numbers age
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.
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.
occurred seen sight
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.
asked assume decide full possession present public road whether wishes
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...
front hands phone shake using web whereas
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.
beauty habitat natural save
They'll save their own habitat and save the beauty of our natural areas.
birds breath continents earthly ebb edge eternal flight flow great knowledge life lines mist moving nearly running salt shore stand surf swept thousands untold watch
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.
cost dominated era seldom whatever
an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make money, at whatever cost to others, is seldom challenged.
age age-and-aging biology man
Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man