Quotes by : Rachel Carson

If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children....

A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full or wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune....

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the....

As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of....

The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty....

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future.....

I am always more interested in what I am about to do than in what I have already done.

Eventually man, too, found his way back to the sea. Standing on its shores, he must have looked out upon....

Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much better....

By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?....