The quotations of

Rachel Carson

American marine biologist and conservationist

1907–1964

16 quotes, most often on Nature, Science and Writing.

In our own lifetime we are witnessing a startling alteration of climate.
The Sea Around Us (1951)
- Nature
Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.
Silent Spring (1962)
- Nature
Man’s attitude toward nature is today critically important, simply because of his new-found power to destroy it.
Speech at Scripps College (June 1962)
- Nature
Future generations are unlikely to condone our lack of prudent concern for the integrity of the natural world that supports all life.
Silent Spring (1962)
- Nature
I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future.
Preface to Humane Biology Projects (1961) by the Animal Welfare Institute
- Nature
- Science
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
The Sense of Wonder (1965)
- Beauty
- Nature
Given time-time not in years but in millennia-life adjusts, and a balance has been reached. For time is the essential ingredient; but in the modern world there is no time.
Silent Spring (1962)
- Nature
- Time
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.”
Silent Spring (1962)
- Nature
- Science
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.
The Sense of Wonder (1965)
- Nature

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