Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Rachel Carson Quotes Click here for Rachel Carson books "The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery— not over nature but of ourselves." "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 long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road — the one less traveled by— offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth." "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." "If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, 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." "If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow." "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 conception until death." "Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song." "As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life." "These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes — nonselective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect, the "good" and the "bad," to still the song of birds and the leaping of fish in the streams, to coat the leaves with a deadly film, and to linger on in soil — all this though the intended target may be only a few weeds or insects. Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called 'insecticides,' but 'biocides.'" "In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference." "In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth." "It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility." "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?'" "The "control of nature" is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man." "Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species—man—acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world." "Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any reason we find its presence undesirable or merely a matter of indifference, we may condemn it to destruction forthwith." "We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature." |
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