40 ordspråk av Rachel Carson

US  Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson föddes den 25 mei 1907 och dog den 14 april 1964 - US writer
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 For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that we use it so little.

 If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.

 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

 In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference

 In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference

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

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

 It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.

 It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks...
the public must decide whether it wishes to continue
on the present road and it can only do so
when in full possession of the facts..."

 It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little headland would be thronged with spectators.

 Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwise there was no reminder of human life.

 My companion and I were alone with the stars: the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky, the patterns of the constellations standing out bright and clear, a blazing planet low on the horizon.

 One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, 'What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?'

 Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.

 The "control of nature" is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man


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