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Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.

Rachel Carson – Silent Spring

The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.

Rachel Carson – Silent Spring

Man’s attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature.

Rachel Carson – Silent Spring

We have allowed these chemicals to be used with little or no advance investigation of their effect on soil, water, wildlife, and man himself.

Rachel Carson – Silent Spring

Future generations are unlikely to condone our lack of prudent concern for the integrity of the natural world that supports all life.

Rachel Carson – Silent Spring

The balance of nature is not a status quo; it is fluid, ever shifting, in a constant state of adjustment.

Rachel Carson – Silent Spring