In nature nothing exists alone.

Rachel Carson

Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.

Rachel Carson

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.

Rachel Carson

Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.

Rachel Carson

What sets the new synthetic insecticides is their enormous biological potency.

Rachel Carson

...drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.

Rachel Carson

In the fish world many things are told by sound waves.

Rachel Carson

One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?

Rachel Carson

Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.

Rachel Carson

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.

Rachel Carson

...natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society.

Rachel Carson

It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons.

Rachel Carson