Rachel Carson — "We are poisoning the earth and all that dwells upon it, and we are doing it in t…"

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

"There is a profound and mysterious relationship between man and the sea."

"Man's attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is i…"

"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."

"Who has the time to feel the earth beneath their feet, or the wind in their hair, or the sun on their face?"