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Rachel Carson Quotes

Total quotes: 6
“It is not half so important to know as to feel.”
— Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder: A Celebration of Nature for Parents and Children
Tagged: Knowing, Feeling, Importance
“Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?”
— Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
Tagged: Urban Living, poison
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”
— Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
Tagged: Nature, How To Think
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”
— Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
Tagged: Nature, Awe Of Nature, positive, Beauty Of The Earth, Beauty of Nature, strength, Finding Strength, Strength In Nature, Healing In Nature, Healing, Change, Change Of Seasons
“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 the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.”
— Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
“A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full or wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantment of later year…the alienation from the sources of our strength.”
— Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder: A Celebration of Nature for Parents and Children
Tagged: Children, Wonder, Excitement, Adulthood
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