"The chemical industry's response to my book is exactly what I expected: a campaign of misinformation and personal attacks."

"We are not to be a generation that leaves behind nothing but a devastated planet."

"The balance of nature is not a static thing; it is a dynamic, complex, and constantly changing relation among living things and their nonliving environment."

"The control of nature is a phrase born of arrogance."

"The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate lite…"