Quotes from "Silent Spring"

"The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road - the one "less traveled by" - offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of our earth. The choice, after all, is ours to make."
This quote states that it isn't still too late for humans to make better decisions in preserving the earth, and that it is up to us to change the outcome of the future. Nye, many times in his writing, brings up that today's society is affected from people's actions more than anything. (Carson, 277)

"The advantages of such control over chemicals are obvious: it is relatively inexpensive, it is permanent, it leaves no poisonous residues. Yet biological control has suffered from lack of support"
This quote is relevant to Merchant's view on nature. Caroline Merchant states that nature can be saved if people cared for it, but instead people were more reluctant to show support than not. (Carson, 292)

"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 delicate and destructible, on the other miraculously tough and resilient, and capable of striking back in unexpected ways."
This quote is relevant to Nye's view on technology. Nye does not believe that technology completely controls people's lives, but more or less affect them greatly. The chemical barrage was used by the humans;this technology harms the laws of nature and eventually will strike back without warning. (Carson, 297)