It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. – Rachel Carson
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. – Rachel Carson
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. – Rachel Carson
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. – Rachel Carson
To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. – Theodore Roosevelt, seventh annual message, 3 December 1907