The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civiliz… - Rachel Carson

Through your interest in plant life, your fostering of beauty, your alignment with constructive conservation causes, you promote that onward flow of life that is the essence of our world. This is a time when forces of a very different nature too often prevail-forces careless of life or deliberately destructive of it and of the essential web of living relationships.

For time is the essential ingredient; but in the modern world there is no time.

We know how to split the atom, and how to use its energy in peace and war, and so we proceed with preparations to do so, as if acting under some blind compulsion;