Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species — man — acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world. - Rachel Carson

If you write what you yourself sincerely think and feel and are interested in, the chances are very high that you will interest other people as well.

Some, perhaps, would fall by the way. Some, old or sick, would drop out of the caravan and creep away into a solitary place to die; others would be picked off by gunners, defying the law for the fancied pleasure of stopping in full flight a brave and fiercely burning life; still others, perhaps, would fall in exhaustion into the sea...In them burned one more the fever of migration, consuming with its fires all other desires and passions.

Carson’s writing initiated a transformation in the relationship between humans and the natural world and stirred an awakening of public environmental consciousness.