“Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
“The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.”
― Rachel Carson
“A Who's Who of pesticides is therefore of concern to us all. If we are going to live so intimately with these chemicals eating and drinking them, taking them into the very marrow of our bones - we had better know something about their nature and their power.”
― Rachel Carson
Get to the library, get to the store, this is a must read. Rachel Carson launched our modern awareness of the environment, 50 years ago with a book that feels like it was written last week. For her efforts she was attacked by the usual suspects, rumors were spread, threats made, even as she died of cancer industry and developers continued the lies. Thanks to her, DDT was banned, but many other chemicals remain needing regulated marketing & use, and some deserve banning, business will not do it.
Until you read this book you have not gotten your moneys worth of this life. Your missing a perspective and logic instantly recognizable as a primal truth you were born with but needs her narrative to free.
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