There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life-we are never bored. We can't be. There is alwa… - Rachel Carson

we are engaged in a grim experiment never before attempted. We are subjecting whole populations to exposure to chemicals which animal experiments have proved to be extremely poisonous and in many cases cumulative in their effect. These exposures now begin at or before birth and-unless we change our methods-will continue through the lifetime of those now living. No one knows what the result will be, because we have no previous experience to guide us.

I take courage, however, in the fact that the conservation effort has a broader base than ever before. There is more organized effort; there are many more individuals who are conscious of conservation problems and who are striving, in their own communities or on the national scene, to solve these problems.

By acquiescing in an act that can cause such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished as a human being.