Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience. Rachel Carson More Quotes by Rachel Carson More Quotes From 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 naturehumilitybeauty 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. Rachel Carson maturitybelievethinking We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of human beings, isolated and priestlike in their laboratories. This is not true. The materials of science are the materials of life itself. Science is part of the reality of living; it is the way, the how and the why for everything in our experience. Rachel Carson agenumbersreality Short version: For the child. . ., it is not half so important to know as to feel. 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. . . . It is more important to pave the way for a child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts that he is not ready to assimilate. Rachel Carson gardenimportantchildren There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature. Rachel Carson wildernessnaturehealing I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever we substitute something man-made and artificial for a natural feature of the earth, we have retarded some part of man's spiritual growth. Rachel Carson spiritualsciencebelieve The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind - that, and anger at the senseless, brutish things that were being done. . . . Now I can believe I have at least helped a little. Rachel Carson mindtryingbelieve The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing life. Rachel Carson amazing-lifeseasky I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done. Rachel Carson doneinspirational There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide. Rachel Carson oceannaturewater If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength. Rachel Carson naturechildrenyears The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance. Rachel Carson neanderthalsphrasesarrogance Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself. Rachel Carson environmentalseascience A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods. Rachel Carson perfectrainweather There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored. Rachel Carson boredqualityscience The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil. Rachel Carson soilchildhoodyears We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life. Rachel Carson importantriversmen For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end. Rachel Carson oceannaturesea We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe. Rachel Carson tinymotivationalthinking 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. Rachel Carson seawritingbook
