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. Rachel Carson More Quotes by Rachel Carson More Quotes From Rachel Carson I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future. To understand biology is to understand that all life is linked to the earth from which it came; it is to understand that the stream of life, flowing out of the dim past into the uncertain future, is in reality a unified force, though composed of an infinite number and variety of separate lives. Rachel Carson numbers reality past Nothing is wasted in the sea; every particle of material is used over and over again, first by one creature, then by another. And when in spring the waters are deeply stirred, the warm bottom water brings to the surface a rich supply of minerals, ready for use by new forms of life. Rachel Carson sea spring water The more I learned about the use of pesticides, the more appalled I became. I realized that here was the material for a book. What I discovered was that everything which meant most to me as a naturalist was being threatened, and that nothing I could do would be more important. Rachel Carson important would-be book Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life. Rachel Carson nature inspirational peace 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. Rachel Carson progress long lying It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray. Rachel Carson choices men thinking Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land, now to the sea. Rachel Carson swings ocean sea The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place. Rachel Carson strange sea beautiful Eventually man, too, found his way back to the sea. Standing on its shores, he must have looked out upon it with wonder and curiosity, compounded with an unconscious recognition of his lineage. He could not physically re-enter the ocean as the seals and whales had done. But over the centuries, with all the skill and ingenuity and reasoning powers of his mind, he has sought to explore and investigate even its most remote parts, so that he might re-enter it mentally and imaginatively. Rachel Carson whales ocean men Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea. Rachel Carson great-mother mother sea Play, Incorporating Animistic and Magical Thinking Is Important Because It: Rachel Carson emotional children thinking As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life. Rachel Carson fabric-of-life earth-day men It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged. Rachel Carson eras dollars cost When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself - the primeval meeting place of the elements of earth and water, a place of compromise and conflit and eternal change. Rachel Carson elements ocean water 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. Rachel Carson song morning beauty Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world. Rachel Carson nature change men The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water. Rachel Carson land sea long One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space. Rachel Carson august summer night The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science. Rachel Carson literature science fiction Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Whatever the vexations or concerns of their personal lives, their thoughts can find paths that lead to inner contentment and to renewed excitement in living. Rachel Carson contentment nature earth
