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 …

— 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