Frases de Rachel Carson

Rachel Louise Carson fue una bióloga marina y conservacionista estadounidense que, a través de la publicación de Primavera silenciosa en 1962 y otros escritos, contribuyó a la puesta en marcha de la moderna conciencia ambiental.

Carson comenzó su carrera como limnóloga en el U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, a partir de la década de los años 1950, se dedicó a tiempo completo a su actividad como escritora naturalista. Su obra The Sea Around Us fue ampliamente elogiada y supuso un gran éxito de ventas. Por esta obra ganó el National Book Award, alcanzando reconocimiento como escritora de talento y seguridad económica.[1]​ Su siguiente libro, The Edge of the Sea, y la reedición revisada de su primer libro, Under the Sea Wind, también fueron superventas. Esta trilogía explora la vida en los océanos desde las costas hasta las profundidades.

A finales de los años 1950, Carson viró su atención hacia la conservación, especialmente hacia los problemas que ella consideraba que eran causados por el uso de pesticidas sintéticos. El resultado fue el libro Primavera Silenciosa , el cual llevó a un nivel sin precedentes la preocupación sobre el medio ambiente en la conciencia colectiva de la sociedad estadounidense. Primavera Silenciosa también se encontró con la feroz oposición de empresas químicas, impulsó un cambio en la política nacional sobre pesticidas, lo que llevó a una prohibición a nivel nacional del DDT y otros pesticidas, e inspiró un movimiento ambiental de base que llevó a la creación de la Agencia de Protección Ambiental de los Estados Unidos.[2]​ Carson fue premiada a título póstumo con la Medalla Presidencial de la Libertad por Jimmy Carter. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. mayo 1907 – 14. abril 1964
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Rachel Carson: Frases en inglés

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”

Fuente: The Sense of Wonder (1965)
Contexto: Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Whatever the vexations or concerns of their personal lives, their thoughts can find paths that lead to inner contentment and to renewed excitement in living. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

“If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.”

Acceptance speech of the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1952); also in Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson (1999) edited by Linda Lear, p. 91
Contexto: The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities. If they are not there, science cannot create them. If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

“In nature nothing exists alone.”

Rachel Carson libro Primavera silenciosa

Fuente: Silent Spring

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”

Speech accepting the John Burroughs Medal (April 1952); also in Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson (1999) edited by Linda Lear, p. 94
Contexto: Mankind has gone very far into an artificial world of his own creation. He has sought to insulate himself, in his cities of steel and concrete, from the realities of earth and water and the growing seed. Intoxicated with a sense of his own power, he seems to be going farther and farther into more experiments for the destruction of himself and his world.
There is certainly no single remedy for this condition and I am offering no panacea. But it seems reasonable to believe — and I do believe — that the more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.

“Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these forces.”

"Essay on the Biological Sciences" in Good Reading (1958)
Contexto: If we have been slow to develop the general concepts of ecology and conservation, we have been even more tardy in recognizing the facts of the ecology and conservation of man himself. We may hope that this will be the next major phase in the development of biology. Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these forces.

“If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.”

The Sense of Wonder (1965)
Contexto: A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.

“I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future.”

Preface to Humane Biology Projects (1961) by the Animal Welfare Institute
Contexto: I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future. To understand biology is to understand that all life is linked to the earth from which it came; it is to understand that the stream of life, flowing out of the dim past into the uncertain future, is in reality a unified force, though composed of an infinite number and variety of separate lives.

“We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair.”

Rachel Carson libro Primavera silenciosa

Fuente: Silent Spring (1962), p. 277
Contexto: We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. 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 the earth.

“A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.”

The Sense of Wonder (1965)
Contexto: A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.

“I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to know as to feel.”

The Sense of Wonder (1965)
Contexto: I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil. Once the emotions have been aroused — a sense of the beautiful, the excitement of the new and the unknown, a feeling of sympathy, pity, admiration or love — then we wish for knowledge about the subject of our emotional response. Once found, it has lasting meaning. It is more important to pave the way for the child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts he is not ready to assimilate.

“The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth — soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.”

Letter to the editor, Washington Post (1953); quoted in Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson (1999) edited by Linda Lear, p. 99
Contexto: The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth — soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife. To utilize them for present needs while insuring their preservation for future generations requires a delicately balanced and continuing program, based on the most extensive research. Their administration is not properly, and cannot be, a matter of politics.

“Once the emotions have been aroused — a sense of the beautiful, the excitement of the new and the unknown, a feeling of sympathy, pity, admiration or love — then we wish for knowledge about the subject of our emotional response. Once found, it has lasting meaning. It is more important to pave the way for the child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts he is not ready to assimilate.”

The Sense of Wonder (1965)
Contexto: I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil. Once the emotions have been aroused — a sense of the beautiful, the excitement of the new and the unknown, a feeling of sympathy, pity, admiration or love — then we wish for knowledge about the subject of our emotional response. Once found, it has lasting meaning. It is more important to pave the way for the child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts he is not ready to assimilate.

“A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.”

The Sense of Wonder (1965)
Contexto: A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods. I always thought so myself; the Maine woods never seem so fresh and alive as in wet weather. Then all the needles on the evergreens wear a sheath of silver; ferns seem to have grown to almost tropical lushness and every leaf has its edging of crystal drops. Strangely colored fungi — mustard-yellow and apricot and scarlet — are pushing out of the leaf mold and all the lichens and the mosses have come alive with green and silver freshness.

“Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.”

The Sense of Wonder (1965)
Contexto: Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Whatever the vexations or concerns of their personal lives, their thoughts can find paths that lead to inner contentment and to renewed excitement in living. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

“The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.”

Acceptance speech of the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1952) for The Sea Around Us; also in Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson (1999) edited by Linda Lear, p. 91

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