We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks that the insect controllers calculate. The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts.

Silent Spring (ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002) - ISBN: 9780618249060