"It is a silent spring that I fear, a spring without birdsong."

"For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death."

"To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a coastal breeze—this is to know the pulse of life."

"I find the greatest wonder in the smallest things."

"The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man."