Rachel Carson — "Why would anyone want to destroy something so beautiful and intricate as nature?"

"Perhaps the most serious of all the omissions of the mass extermination programs is the failure to take into account the fact that environmental pollution is a two-way street."

"The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man."

"We are poisoning the earth and all that dwells upon it, and we are doing it in the name of progress."

"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."

"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."