Quotations from Brainy Smurf 47

"If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much that he is out of danger?" --Thomas Huxley

"We travel together on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, committed for our safety to its security and peace, preserved from annihilation only by the care, work, and I will say, the love we give our fragile craft." --Adlai E. Stevenson

"If we love our children, we must love our earth with tender care and pass it on, diverse and beautiful, so that on a warm spring day 10,000 years hence they can feel peace in a sea of grass, can hear a sandpiper call in the sky, and can find joy in being alive." --Hugh H. Iltis

"It is a monstrous abuse of the science of biology to teach it only in the laboratory---Life belongs in the fields, in the ponds, on the mountains, and by the seashore." --James G. Needham

"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." --Rachel Carson

"It is not half so important to know as to feel." --Rachel Carson