Rachel Carson Quotes - Page 6

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• For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.

  Rachel Carson

  Memories, Women, Smell

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• How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind?

  Rachel Carson

  Intelligent, Disease And Death, Kind

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.

  Rachel Carson

  People, Enemy, Done

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Rachel Carson

  Mean, Water, Community

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• 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".

  Rachel Carson

  Men, Voice, Years

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• 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.

  Rachel Carson

  Humility, Men, Space

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