Rachel Carson Quotes

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.

If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

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?

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we’re challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves.

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

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.

There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.

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

The most alarming of all man’s assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.

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

In nature nothing exists alone.