Rachel Carson — "The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, n…"

"The fact that we are so ignorant of the long-term effects of these chemicals is terrifying."

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

"As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life—a fabric on the one hand delicate and destructible, on the other miraculously informed with po…"

"I am not a prophet. I am a scientist."

"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…"