"I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially."
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Inspired Writings of Non-Mormons | Quoted in Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962), vii.
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