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.

Rachel Carson

But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.

Rachel Carson

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

Rachel Carson

In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.

Rachel Carson

We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.

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

It is not half so important to know as to feel.

Rachel Carson

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

Rachel Carson

The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.

Rachel Carson

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

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

Many children... delight in the small and inconspicuous.

Rachel Carson