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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.
Rachel Carson1907–1964Silent Spring (1962)
Man’s attitude toward nature is today critically important, simply because of his new-found power to destroy it.
Rachel Carson1907–1964Speech at Scripps College (June 1962)
Future generations are unlikely to condone our lack of prudent concern for the integrity of the natural world that supports all life.
Rachel Carson1907–1964Silent Spring (1962)
I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future.
Rachel Carson1907–1964Preface to Humane Biology Projects (1961) by the Animal Welfare Institute
- Science
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Rachel Carson1907–1964The Sense of Wonder (1965)
- Beauty
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.
Rachel Carson1907–1964Silent Spring (1962)
- 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.”
Rachel Carson1907–1964Silent Spring (1962)
- Science
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.
Rachel Carson1907–1964The Sense of Wonder (1965)
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
Willa Cather1873–1947O Pioneers! (1913), Part II, Ch. 8
We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it — for a little while.
Willa Cather1873–1947O Pioneers! (1913), Part V, Ch. 3
Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky. The landscape one longed for when one was away, the thing all about one, the world one actually lived in, was the sky, the sky!
Willa Cather1873–1947Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927), Book VII, Ch. 4
There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.
Willa Cather1873–1947My Ántonia (1918), Book I: The Shimerdas, Chapter IIn context
Man is endowed with reason and the power to create, so that he may increase that which has been given him, but until now he has not created, but demolished. The forests are disappearing, the rivers are running dry, the game is exterminated, the climate is spoiled, and the earth becomes poorer and uglier every day.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904Uncle Vanya (1897), Act I, spoken by AstroffIn context
You’ve only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can’t sleep, I think: “Oh Lord, you’ve given us huge forests, infinite fields, and endless horizons, and we, living here, ought really to be giants.”
Anton Chekhov1860–1904The Cherry Orchard (1904), Act Two, spoken by LopakhinIn context
- Character
The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.
Kate Chopin1850–1904The Awakening (1899), Chapter VIIn context