“Man’s attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”

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

— Rachel Carson, 'Silent Spring' (1962)

“If we are living so intimately with chemicals—eating and drinking them, taking them into the very …”

— 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)

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

— 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 relations …”

— 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