Rachel Carson Quotes

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.

But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.

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.

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.

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.

In nature nothing exists alone.

Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.

We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.

Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.