"As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life—a fabric on the one hand delicate and destructible, on the other miraculously informed with po…"

"For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death."

"Why would anyone want to destroy something so beautiful and intricate as nature?"

"I am not a scientist in a white coat. I am a writer who happens to write about science."

"A Who's Who of pesticides is therefore a veritable rogues' gallery of poisons."