Rachel Carson Quotes:
Ocupation: Marine biologist
Life: May 27, 1907 - April 14, 1964
Birthday: May 27
Death: April 14
Is it reasonable to suppose that we can apply a broad-spectrum insecticide to kill the burrowing larval stages of a crop-destroying insect ... without also killing the 'good' insects whose function may be the essential one of breaking down organic matter and maintaining healthy soil?
source: Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
topic: Healthy, Matter, Soil, Insecticides, Burrowing
