Rachel Carson Quotes


Until we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world. There can be no double standard. We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing, we set back the progress of humanity.


Citations

Carson, Rachel. Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson. Edited by Linda Lear, Beacon Press, 1998, p. 195.

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Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson
  • Born: May 27, 1907
  • Died: April 14, 1964
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Rachel Louise Carson was an American marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose influential book Silent Spring (1962) and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.