Rachel Carson Quotes

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

We've raped our homelands to maintain our economies.

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

The causal chain of the deterioration (of the environment) is easily followed to its source. Too many cars, too many factories, too much detergent, too much pesticide, multiplying contrails, inadequate sewage treatment plants, too little water, too much carbon dioxide---all can be traced easily to too many people.

Nature does not have the capacity to heal all the wounds that have been inflicted upon it by mankind.

Over the last several decades, human activity have so altered the basic chemistry of the seas that they are now experiencing evolution in reverse to the barren primeval waters of hundreds of millions of years ago.

The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. It grows with the production of napalm and missiles and nuclear warheads... It includes... the broadcasting of television programs which glorify violence to sell goods to our children.

Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides.

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.

No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.

Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.

Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.

The white man is destroying the world.

Around the world today we're seeing an incredible transformation, from what I would call a biocidal species, one that - whether we intentionally or unintentionally - have designed our systems to kill life, a lot of the time.

Man is complex—he makes deserts bloom and lakes die.

Runaway technology, whose only law is profit, has for years poisoned our air, ravaged our soil, stripped our forests bare, and corrupted our water resources

Here in the United States we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping-grounds, we pollute the air, we destroy forests, and exterminate fishes, birds, and mammals—not to speak of vulgarizing charming landscapes with hideous advertisements.

Your armed struggles for profit Have left collars of waste upon My shore,, Currents of debris upon my breast.

We all love the environment, but … a rat is a rat.

Man's war against nature is a war against himself.

Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.