US "biologist, writer".
"Her writings combined scientific accuracy with lyrical prose: "The Sea Around Us," 1951, "Silent Spring," 1962."
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.
The ocean is a place of paradoxes.
"In every out thrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is a story of the earth."
Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
"Under the philosophy that now seems to guide our destinies, nothing must get in the way of the man with the spray gun."