Future generations are unlikely to condone our lack of prudent concern for the integrity of the n...
Future generations are unlikely to condone our lack of prudent concern for the integrity of the natural world that supports all life.
Rachel-Carson
If we are living so intimately with chemicals—eating and drinking them, taking them into the very...
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.
In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of...
In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
Man's attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a ...
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 …
One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, 'What if I had never seen this before? What if I kn...
One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, ‘What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?’
The earth's vegetation is part of a web of life in which there are intimate and essential relatio...
The earth’s vegetation is part of a web of life in which there are intimate and essential relations between plants and the earth, between plants and other plants, between plants and animals.
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us...
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.
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long ...
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
We are challenged as mankind has never been challenged before to prove our maturity and our maste...
We are challenged as mankind has never been challenged before to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature, but of ourselves.
Profile: Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson (1907-1964) was an American marine biologist and nature writer whose 1962 book “Silent Spring” launched the modern environmental movement by revealing the devastating …
Book: “The Sea Around Us” by Rachel Carson
The Sea Around Us is a prize-winning and best-selling book by the American marine biologist Rachel Carson, first published as a whole by Oxford University Press in 1951. It reveals the science and …