Rachel Carson Quotes about Science

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I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever we substitute something man-made and artificial for a natural feature of the earth,

I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever we substitute something man-made and artificial for a natural feature of the earth, we have retarded some part of man's spiritual growth.

Rachel Carson

Spiritual, Believe, Science

Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.

Rachel Carson

Science, Sea, Environmental

There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored.

Rachel Carson

Science, Bored, Quality

Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.

Rachel Carson

Science, Fiction, Literature

"Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson" edited by Linda Lear, (p. 91), 1999.