Beauty — and all the values that derive from beauty — are not measured and evaluated in terms of the dollar. - Rachel Carson

It is spread before us like the pages of an open book in which we can read why the land is what it is, and why we should preserve its integrity. But the pages lie unread.

In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.

[…] can we afford to ignore the fact that we are now filling the environment with chemicals that have the power to strike directly at the chromosomes […]? Is this not too high a price to pay for a sproutless potato or a mosquitoless patio?