Rachel Carson

Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquainta ...

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, t ...

Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here ...

Any concept of biology is not only sterile and profitless, it is distorted and untrue, if it puts it ...

In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of th ...

There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not kn ...

Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, ...

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.

When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself - the prim ...

The Choice, after all, is ours to make.

A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.

We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is imp ...

Play, Incorporating Animistic and Magical Thinking Is Important Because It: Fosters the healthy, cre ...

The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literatur ...

The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are avai ...