Carson, Rachel (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

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.
-- Rachel Carson

It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks...
-- 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

Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species
-- Rachel Carson

The "control of nature" is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.
-- Rachel Carson

The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
-- Rachel Carson

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery
-- Rachel Carson

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find resources of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
-- Rachel Carson

To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of year, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.
-- Rachel Carson

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
-- Rachel Carson

As man proceeds to his announced goal of the conquest of nature, he has written a depressing record of destruction, directed not only against the earth he inhabits but against the life that shares it with him.

-- Rachel Carson