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“The modern world worships the gods of speed and quantity, and of the quick and easy profit, and out of this idolatry monstrous evils have arisen. Yet the evils go long unrecognized.”

— Rachel Carson

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Source

Title
Wikiquote: Rachel Carson
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Context

Foreword to the book Animal Machines by Ruth Harrison (1964).

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Carson, Rachel. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Rachel Carson. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson

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