The truth is that disposal has proceeded far more rapidly than our knowledge justifies. To dispose first and investigate later is an invitation to di… - Rachel Carson

To dispose first and investigate later is an invitation to disaster, for once radioactive elements have been deposited at sea they are irretrievable. The mistakes that are made now are made for all time.

It is more important to pave the way for the child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts he is not ready to assimilate.

It is more important to pave the way for the child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts he is not ready to assimilate.” — Rachel Carson, A sense of wonder

There is something deeply impressive about the night sea as one experiences it from a small vessel far from land. When I stood on the afterdeck on those dark nights, on a tiny man-made island of wood and steel, dimly seeing the great shapes of waves that rolled about us, I think I was conscious as never before that ours is a water world, dominated by the immensity of the sea....