Man's attitude toward nature is today critically important, simply because of his new-found power to destroy it. - Rachel Carson

As you listen to the present controversy about pesticides, I recommend that you ask yourself-Who speaks? And Why?

Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.

The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.