Quote by Rachel Carson
"The capacity for wonder is a gift that atrophies without use, and in losing it, we lose something essential to our humanity."
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."