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Rachel Carson
(27 May 1907 - 14 Apr 1964)
American marine biologist, conservationist and writer whose book Silent Spring (1962), denounced the indiscriminate use of pesticides, and helped launch the modern environmental movement.
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Rachel Carson Quotes on Nature (9 quotes)
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By their very nature chemical controls are self-defeating, for they have been devised and applied without taking into account the complex biological systems against which they have been blindly hurled.
— Rachel Carson
Silent Spring (1962), 246.
Future generations are unlikely to condone our lack of prudent concern for the integrity of the natural world that supports all life.
— Rachel Carson
Silent Spring (1962), 13.
I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever we substitute something man-made and artificial for a natural feature of the earth, we have retarded some part of man’s spiritual growth.
— Rachel Carson
As quoted in Linda Lear, Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature (1997), 259.
In nature, nothing exists alone.
— Rachel Carson
In Silent Spring (1962), 51.
Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
— Rachel Carson
In The Sense of Wonder (1956, 1965), 30.
The “control of nature” is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.
— Rachel Carson
In Silent Spring (1962), 297.
The balance of nature is not a status quo; it is fluid, ever shifting, in a constant state of adjustment.
— Rachel Carson
In Silent Spring (1962), 246.
The more I learned about the use of pesticides, the more appalled I became. I realized that here was the material for a book. What I discovered was that everything which meant most to me as a naturalist was being threatened, and that nothing I could do would be more important.
— Rachel Carson
Explaining her motivation for writing the book Silent Spring (1962), quoted in Always, Rachel: The Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, 1952-1964 (1995), xxvii.
There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for the spring. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.
— Rachel Carson
In The Sense of Wonder (1956, 1965), 88-89.
See also:
- 27 May - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Carson's birth.
- Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson. - book suggestion.
- Booklist for Rachel Carson.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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