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Quotes from Speech — Rachel Carson

1907–1964 United States

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7 quotes

As human beings, we are part of the whole stream of life.

Speech (1954)

To me, Dr. Albert Schweitzer is the one truly great individuals our modern times have produced.

Speech (1963)

A preoccupation with the wonder and beauty of the earth has strongly influenced the course of my life.

Speech (1954)

Is it the right of this, our generation, in its selfish materialism, to destroy these things because we are blinded by the dollar sign? Beauty-and all the values the derive from beauty-are not measured and evaluated in terms of the dollar.

Speech (1954)

Our origins are of the earth. And so there is in us a deeply seated response to the natural universe, which is part of our humanity.

Speech (1954)

There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of birds, in the ebb and flow of the tides; in the folded bud ready for the spring. There is something infinitely healing in these repeated refrains of nature-the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.

Speech (1954)

The fifteen years that I spent in fishery and wildlife conservation work with the *Government have taken me into certain places where few other women have been.

Speech (1954)

Attribution

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