Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
In plain words
If you are full of wonder, you do not want to wreck things.
Where these words come from
- 88% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Speech accepting the John Burroughs Medal (April 1952); also in Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson (1999), ed. Linda Lear, p. 94
