Rachel Carson
American marine biologist, writer and conservationist (1907 to 1964) whose sea trilogy and 1962 book Silent Spring are credited with advancing marine conservation and the global environmental movement.
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Contaminating air, land, rivers and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials is humanity's most alarming assault on the environment
The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.
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Contaminating air, land, rivers and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials is humanity's most alarming assault on the environment
The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.
Silent Spring (Houghton Mifflin, 2002 edition) Said c. 1962
The objection is not to all insecticide use but to handing potent poisons indiscriminately to the largely or wholly ignorant
It is not my contention that chemical insecticides must never be used. I do contend that we have put poisonous and biologically potent chemicals indiscriminately into the hands of persons largely or wholly ignorant of their potentials for harm.
Silent Spring (Houghton Mifflin, 2002 edition) Said c. 1962
Huge numbers of people have been exposed to pesticides without their consent and often without their knowledge
We have subjected enormous numbers of people to contact with these poisons, without their consent and often without their knowledge.
Silent Spring (Houghton Mifflin, 2002 edition) Said c. 1962
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Pesticides were allowed into use with little or no advance study of effects on soil, water, wildlife and people
I contend, furthermore, that we have allowed these chemicals to be used with little or no advance investigation of their effect on soil, water, wildlife, and man himself.
Silent Spring (Houghton Mifflin, 2002 edition) Said c. 1962
Future generations are unlikely to condone our lack of prudent care for the natural world that supports all life
Future generations are unlikely to condone our lack of prudent concern for the integrity of the natural world that supports all life.
Silent Spring (Houghton Mifflin, 2002 edition) Said c. 1962
This is an age of specialists who each see their own problem and miss or reject the larger frame
This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits.
Silent Spring (Houghton Mifflin, 2002 edition) Said c. 1962
This is an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make money at any cost is seldom challenged
It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
Silent Spring (Houghton Mifflin, 2002 edition) Said c. 1962
The public must decide whether to stay on the present course, and can do so only with all the facts
The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts.
Silent Spring (Houghton Mifflin, 2002 edition) Said c. 1962
Spraying campaigns like eastern Illinois's raise a moral question: can a civilization wage relentless war on life without destroying itself
Incidents like the eastern Illinois spraying raise a question that is not only scientific but moral. The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.
Silent Spring (Houghton Mifflin, 2002 edition) Said c. 1962
Insecticides are not selective poisons; they do not single out the one species people want to be rid of
These insecticides are not selective poisons; they do not single out the one species of which we desire to be rid.
Silent Spring (Houghton Mifflin, 2002 edition) Said c. 1962
Shifting even a small share of spending on ever more toxic sprays into research could help keep poisons from waterways
If we would divert to constructive research even a small fraction of the money spent each year on the development of ever more toxic sprays, we could find ways to use less dangerous materials and to keep poisons out of our waterways.
Silent Spring (Houghton Mifflin, 2002 edition) Said c. 1962
Cancer cures must still be sought, but for the unaffected and the unborn, prevention is the imperative need
For those in whom cancer is already a hidden or a visible presence, efforts to find cures must of course continue. But for those not yet touched by the disease and certainly for the generations as yet unborn, prevention is the imperative need.
Silent Spring (Houghton Mifflin, 2002 edition) Said c. 1962
Predators and prey are part of a vast web of life, all of which needs to be taken into account
The predator and the preyed upon exist not alone, but as part of a vast web of life, all of which needs to be taken into account.
Silent Spring (Houghton Mifflin, 2002 edition) Said c. 1962
A primitive science of insect control has armed itself with modern weapons and turned them against the earth
It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons, and that in turning them against the insects it has also turned them against the earth.
Silent Spring (Houghton Mifflin, 2002 edition) Said c. 1962
Every human being is now exposed to dangerous chemicals from conception until death, for the first time in history
For The First Time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.
Silent Spring (Houghton Mifflin, 2002 edition) Said c. 1962
Chemical insect control seems to have assumed that soil could absorb any amount of poison without striking back
Chemical control of insects seems to have proceeded on the assumption that the soil could and would sustain any amount of insult via the introduction of poisons without striking back.
Silent Spring (Houghton Mifflin, 2002 edition) Said c. 1962
Plant life is part of a web of life with intimate, essential ties to the earth, other plants and animals
The earth's vegetation is part of a web of life in which there are intimate and essential relations between plants and the earth, between plants and other plants, between plants and animals.
Silent Spring (Houghton Mifflin, 2002 edition) Said c. 1962
Booming sales of chemical crabgrass killers show how readily unsound methods catch on
The booming sales of chemical crabgrass killers are another example of how readily unsound methods catch on.
Silent Spring (Houghton Mifflin, 2002 edition) Said c. 1962
Known alternatives to chemical spraying should be used more widely, and ingenuity and resources devoted to developing new ones
We must make wider use of alternative methods that are now known, and we must devote our ingenuity and resources to developing others.
Silent Spring (Houghton Mifflin, 2002 edition) Said c. 1962
Modern insect control overlooks that the really effective control of insects is the one nature applies, not people
Two critically important facts have been overlooked in designing the modern insect control programs. The first is that the really effective control of insects is that applied by nature, not by man.
Silent Spring (Houghton Mifflin, 2002 edition) Said c. 1962
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