Rachel Carson — "The more we learn about the complexities of life, the more we realize how little…"

"The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials."

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

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

"Drinkers of water, who are we? We are the people who will drink this water."

"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…"