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Rachel Carson Biography

Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.

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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.

Knowing, Peace, Silent, Would Be

Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.

Acquired, Change, Men, Nature, Power, Significant

Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our major concern is no longer with the disease organisms that once were omnipresent; sanitation, better living conditions, and new drugs have given us a high degree of control over infectious disease. Today we are concerned with a different kind of hazard that lurks in our environment-a hazard we ourselves have introduced into our world as our modern way of life has evolved.

Drug, Drugs, Evolved, Fear, Our World, Yesterday

We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe. 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.

Attitude, Men, Nature, Part, Think, War

A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.

Beautiful, Children, Fresh, Wonder, World

We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks that the insect controllers calculate. The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts.

Risk, Wish, Sugar Coating, Assume, Asked, Urgently

If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.

Child, Children, Fairy, Nature, Sense, Years

The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.

Civilization, Destroying, Losing, Relentless, War

As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.

Barrage, Cave, Earth Day, Fabric, Fabric Of Life, Men

Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.

Beauty, Birds, Large, Morning, Song, Strangely

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.

Apt, Beginnings, Shadowy

Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may glow with sheets of cold fire, while below schools of fish pour through the water like molten metal.

Autumn, Fresh, Ocean, School, Sheets, Water

Those who love and free nature are never alone.

Environment, Environmental, Free, Love, Nature

How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind?

Contaminated, Control, Disease, Disease And Death, Intelligent, Kind

Who has the right to decide that the supreme value is a world without insects even though it would be a sterile world ungraced by the curving wing of a bird in flight. The decision is that of the authoritarian temporarily entrusted with power.

Bird, Decide, Decision, Power, Wings, World

No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.

Enemy, New Life, People, Witchcraft, World

Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.

Beauties, Dwell, Earth, Inspirational, Nature, Peace

We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then, can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals we disseminate widely in our environment?

Chemicals, Disseminate, Environment, Indifferent, Radiation, Widely

To the bird watcher, the suburbanite who derives joy from birds in his garden, the hunter, the fisherman or the explorer of wild regions, anything that destroys the wildlife of an area for even a single year has deprived him of pleasure to which he has a legitimate right. This is a valid point of view.

Birds, Garden, Point, View, Views, Years

When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself - the primeval meeting place of the elements of earth and water, a place of compromise and conflit and eternal change.

Conflit, Elements, Line, Ocean, Old, Water

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