Rachel Carson — "I hope that my book will awaken a sense of responsibility in all who read it."

"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"

"We are surrounded by an infinite number of wonders, and yet we see so few of them."

"The time has come for us to make peace with the earth."

"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 tha…"

"The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster."