“We are challenged as mankind has never been challenged before to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature, but of ourselves.”

“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)

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

— 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 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)