Rachel Carson
One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?Collection: Motivational
But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.Collection: Inspirational
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe, the less taste we shall have for destruction.Collection: Reality
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.Collection: Inspirational
The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.Collection: Nature
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.Collection: Life
Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.Collection: Rivers
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. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible. In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little-recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world-the very nature of its life.Collection: Nature
We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe. 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 inevitably a war against himself.Collection: Attitude
In nature nothing exists alone.Collection: Environment
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.Collection: Strength
To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.Collection: Running
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.Collection: Nature
The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife. To utilize them for present needs while insuring their preservation for future generations requires a delicately balanced and continuing program, based on the most extensive research. Their administration is not properly, and cannot be, a matter of politics.Collection: Real
A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.Collection: Beautiful
Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.Collection: Reality
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 on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road - the one less traveled by - offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.Collection: Nature
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.Collection: Nature
It is not half so important to know as to feel.Collection: Important
Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.Collection: Wonder
Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.Collection: Mystery
We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life.Collection: Men
Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.Collection: Knowing
A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.Collection: Rain
Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.Collection: Humility
No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.Collection: People
The procedure has a strange Alice-in-Wonderland quality. The reservoir was created as a public water supply, yet the community, probably unconsulted about the sportsmen's project, is forced either to drink water containing poisonous residues or to pay our tax money for treatment of the water to remove the poisons - treatments that are by no means foolproof.Collection: Mean
Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our major concern is no longer with the disease organisms that once were omnipresent; sanitation, better living conditions, and new drugs have given us a high degree of control over infectious disease. Today we are concerned with a different kind of hazard that lurks in our environment-a hazard we ourselves have introduced into our world as our modern way of life has evolved.Collection: Our World
These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes-nonselective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect, the 'good' and the 'bad,' to still the song of birds and the leaping of fish in the streams, to coat the leaves with a deadly film, and to linger on in soil-all this though the intended target may be only a few weeds or insects. Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called 'insecticides,' but 'biocides.'Collection: Weed
In recent years it has become impossible to talk about man's relation to nature without referring to "ecology"...such leading scientists in this area as Rachel Carson, Barry Commoner, Eugene Odum, Paul Ehrlich and others, have become our new delphic voices...so influential has their branch of science become that our time might well be called the "Age of Ecology".Collection: Men
I still feel there is a case to be made for my old belief that as man approaches the 'new heaven and the new earth' -- or the space-age universe, if you will, he must do so with humility rather than with arrogance.Collection: Humility
The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.Collection: Arrogance
Those who love and free nature are never alone.Collection: Nature
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.Collection: Beauty
We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe.Collection: Motivational
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.Collection: Nature
The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing life.Collection: Sky
The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth - soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.Collection: Real
Short version: For the child. . ., it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. . . . It is more important to pave the way for a child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts that he is not ready to assimilate.Collection: Children
We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.Collection: Life
I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever we substitute something man-made and artificial for a natural feature of the earth, we have retarded some part of man's spiritual growth.Collection: Spiritual
We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of human beings, isolated and priestlike in their laboratories. This is not true. The materials of science are the materials of life itself. Science is part of the reality of living; it is the way, the how and the why for everything in our experience.Collection: Reality
In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.Collection: Beach
For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.Collection: History
If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.Collection: Book
A Who's Who of pesticides is therefore of concern to us all. If we are going to live so intimately with these chemicals eating and drinking them, taking them into the very marrow of our bones - we had better know something about their nature and their power.Collection: Drinking
The Choice, after all, is ours to make.Collection: Choices
Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we're challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves.Collection: Believe
If I had influence with the good fairy... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.Collection: Children
Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.Collection: Science