Quotations from Rachel Carson, 1907-1964
- The sea lies all about us. The commerce of all lands must cross it. The very winds that move over the lands have been cradled on its broad expanse and seek ever to return to it. The continents themselves dissolve and pass to the sea, in grain after grain of eroded land. So the rains that rose from it return again in rivers. In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead husks of that same life. For all at last returns to the sea -- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.
The Sea Around Us [1951], ch. 14, ending- As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
Silent Spring [1962]
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