Rachel Carson — "Our heedless and destructive uses of the earth's resources are a form of self-de…"

"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."

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

"We are dealing with the most dangerous substances in the world, and we are treating them with a casual indifference that borders on criminal."

"We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway o…"

"I am haunted by the thought of what we are doing to the earth."