Quote #1
'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.'
More from Rachel Carson
- Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are stra…
- These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes - nonselective chemicals that ha…
- For each of us, as for the robin in Michigan or the Salmon in the Miramichi, this is a problem of ecology, of interrelationships, of interd…
- We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have lon…
- As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
- For all at last returns to the sea - to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the everflowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.
- For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of …
- For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.