If we are living so intimately with chemicals—eating and drinking them, taking them into the very marrow of our bones—we had better know something about their power.

Future generations are unlikely to condone our lack of prudent concern for the integrity of the …

— Rachel Carson, 'Silent Spring' (1962)

In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of …

— Rachel Carson, 'The Sea Around Us' (1951)

Man’s attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired …

— Rachel Carson, 'Silent Spring' (1962)

One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, ‘What if I had never seen this before? What if I …

— Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder (1965)

The earth’s vegetation is part of a web of life in which there are intimate and essential …

— Rachel Carson, 'Silent Spring' (1962)

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, …

— Rachel Carson, Letter to Dorothy Freeman