Rachel Carson Quotes About Humility

Quotes about: Humility

• 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.

  Rachel Carson

  Beauty, Nature, Humility

• As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life - a fabric on the one hand delicate and destructible, on the other miraculously tough and resilient, and capable of striking back in unexpected ways. These extraordinary capacities of life have been ignored by the practitioners of chemical control who have brought to their task no "high-minded orientation," no humility before the vast forces with which they tamper.

  Rachel Carson

  Humility, Men, Delicate Life

  Silent Spring ch. 17 (1962)

• There is certainly no single remedy for this condition and I am offering no panacea. But it seems reasonable to believe — and I do believe — that 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 the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.

  Rachel Carson

  Believe, Humility, Reality

  Rachel Carson (2011). “Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson”, p.94, Beacon Press

• I still feel there is a case to be made for my old belief that as man approaches the 'new heaven and the new earth' -- or the space-age universe, if you will, he must do so with humility rather than with arrogance.

  Rachel Carson

  Humility, Men, Space

• Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.

  Rachel Carson

  Humility, Lust, Sides

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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