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 Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one. Rachel Carson threshold mystery greater A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. Rachel Carson garden beautiful children Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides. Rachel Carson environmental poison believe It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself. Rachel Carson ocean sea life The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him. Rachel Carson discipline listening writing We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks that the insect controllers calculate. The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts. Rachel Carson risk wish needs 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. Rachel Carson delicate-life humility men Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber. Rachel Carson nature choices may The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, . . . when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man . . . . It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons, and that in turning them against the insects it has also turned them against the earth. Rachel Carson phrases arrogance men The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized. Rachel Carson losing war civilization 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. Rachel Carson dirty-water ice-water men I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future. Rachel Carson environmental nature past I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to 'know' as to 'feel'. Rachel Carson parent believe children Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may glow with sheets of cold fire, while below schools of fish pour through the water like molten metal. Rachel Carson autumn ocean school But most of all I shall remember the monarchs, that unhurried westward drift of one small winged form after another, each drawn by some invisible force. Rachel Carson invisible form remember We have looked first at man with his vanities and greed and his problems of a day or a year; and then only, and from this biased point of view, we have looked outward at the earth he has inhabited so briefly and at the universe in which our earth is so minute a part. Yet these are the great realities, and against them we see our human problems in a different perspective. Perhaps if we reversed the telescope and looked at man down these long vistas, we should find less time and inclination to plan for our own destruction. Rachel Carson vanity men reality When any living thing has come to the end of its cycle, we accept that end as natural. When that intangible cycle has run its course it is a natural and not unhappy thing that a life comes to its end. Rachel Carson unhappy running death the sea is a place of mystery. One by one, the mysteries of yesterday have been solved. But the solution seems always to bring with it another, perhaps a deeper mystery. I doubt that the last, final mysteries of the sea will ever be resolved. In fact, I cherish a very unscientific hope that they will not be. Rachel Carson ocean sea yesterday For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future... Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time. Rachel Carson links men past Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these forces. Rachel Carson here-and-there survival men
