Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson
Rachel Louise Carsonwas an American marine biologist and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement...
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth27 May 1907
CitySpringdale, PA
environment
Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little headland would be thronged with spectators.
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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.
humility men delicate-life
As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life - a fabric on the one hand delicate and destructible, on the other miraculously tough and resilient, and capable of striking back in unexpected ways. These extraordinary capacities of life have been ignored by the practitioners of chemical control who have brought to their task no "high-minded orientation," no humility before the vast forces with which they tamper.
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It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent... It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people...
choices
The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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I still feel there is a case to be made for my old belief that as man approaches the 'new heaven and the new earth' -- or the space-age universe, if you will, he must do so with humility rather than with arrogance.
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Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits.
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Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.