Home / Quotes / Quote by Rachel Carson

Quote by Rachel Carson

“For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.”

Quote by Rachel Carson

Author

Rachel Carson, an American marine biologist, was born on May 27, 1907, and passed away on April 14, 1964. She is renowned for her in-depth research on marine ecosystems and her advocacy for environmental issues. Carson's book 'Silent Spring' revealed the destructive impact of pesticides on the environment, which had a profound impact on the environmental movement. more

You May Also Like

“If I want a long, boring story with no point to it, I have my life.”

Ifs Want Long Stories Boring No Point

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“Cease thy counsel, for thy words fall into my ears as priceless as water into a seive.”

Fall Water Ears Cease Priceless

Author:William Shakespeare

“Never try to negotiate with anyone after he or she has eaten. People are best persuaded on an empty stomach. And forget power breakfasts. There is no convincing anyone of anything before 10 A.M.”

People Trying Forget Empty Breakfast Stomach Convincing Empty Stomach

Author:Joyce Brothers

“The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home -- and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries.”

Doe Country Home Values Travel Forty Traveled Superficial Stamps Passports Hinges Travel Experience

Author:Rolf Potts

“What Hamlet suffers from is a lack of zombies. Let us say Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show up—Ho-HO! Now you’ve got something that stirs the, um, something that stirs things that are stirrable. BOOM! A pack of ravenous flesh-eaters breaks open their heads and sucks out their eyeballs. No need for iambic pentameter because they are grunting, groaning annihilators of humanity with no time for meter. You’re not asleep in the back of English class anymore, are you? This is what I’m talking about. Zombies. Learn it, live it, love it.”

Needs Shows Suffering Humanity Talking Class Break Flesh Packs Zombie Meter Eyeballs Groaning Rosencrantz And Guildenstern English Class

Author:Libba Bray

“You are working up to Mr. Fantastic Fiction levels of Zombie Expert, which is like playing Guitar Hero on some level that actually melts the guitar controller, burning your fingers with searing hot plastic till you scream in pain. Only with words. And zombies.”

Pain Levels Fiction Hero Hot Fingers Guitar Burning Fantastic Experts Scream Plastic Zombie Playing Guitar Controllers Guitar Hero

Author:Libba Bray

“All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.”

Men Improvement

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.”

Thinking World Feet

Book:Atonement

Source: Atonement

“I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of - I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters - I live and breath with them.”

World Feels I Can Country Character Stories Reading Hours Roles Knowing Sitting Breaths Details Wander

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightening - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting it, sweeping every will before it like a leaf, engulfing all feelings.”

Feelings Heaven Storm Hats Flash Leafs Sweeping Heaven Sent Uprooting Engulfing

Author:Gustave Flaubert