Quote by Rachel Carson
"For all our sophistication and progress, we owe our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains."
More from Rachel Carson
"In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth."
"The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction."
"If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truly about the sea and leave out the poetry."
"Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land."