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Friday, November 20, 2009

Quotes from Silent Spring

"we should look about and see what other course is open to us" (p 278)

"There is, then, a whole battery of armaments available to the forester who is willing to look for permanent solutions that preservew and strengthen the natural relations in the forest." (p 296)

"As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life -- a fabric on the one hand delicare and destructible, on the other miraculously tough and resilient, and capable of striking back in unexpected ways" (p 297"

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