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

"It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility."

"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 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."

"The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place."

"A Who's Who of pesticides is therefore a veritable rogues' gallery of poisons."