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Quotes from Environmental Hazards: Control of Pesticides and Other Chemical Poisons — Rachel Carson

1907–1964 United States

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We have acquired technical skills on a scale undreamed of even a generation ago. We can do dramatic things and we can do them quickly; by the time damaging side effects are apparent it is often too late, or impossible, to reverse our actions.

Environmental Hazards: Control of Pesticides and Other Chemical Poisons (1963)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Rachel Carson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.