Mark H. Lytle
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“She believed that the arrogance of humankind created a deadly irony: in their determination to control nature, human beings posed a growing threat to all life on earth, including their own.”
― The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement
― The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement
“We still talk in terms of conquest,” she observed. “We still haven’t become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe.” Without hesitating, she delivered her final blow: “I think we’re challenged as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature, but of ourselves.”
― The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement
― The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement
“She could not be silent even if the men of science, many of them smug experts in white lab coats who promised “better living through chemistry,” dismissed her warnings as feminine hysteria.”
― The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement
― The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement
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