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Silent Spring
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"Silent Spring" Quotes

"Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson is a groundbreaking work that exposes the harmful effects of pesticides on the environment and human health.

Quotes

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

Rachel Carson

naturestrength

In nature nothing exists alone.

Rachel Carson

natureinterconnectedness

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

natureappreciation

The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.

Rachel Carson

naturearrogance

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

Rachel Carson

natureself-mastery

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

natureirony

Man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.

Rachel Carson

natureself-reflection