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Rachel Carson > Website 
Author of Silent Spring (1962), Under the Sea-Wind (1941), The Sea Around Us (1952), The Edge of the Sea (1955). Rachel Louise Carson was a writer, scientist, and ecologist whose book Silent Spring called for an end to indiscriminate pesticide use and, on a broader level, a change in the way we view nature. Carson combined the insights of an observant scientist with a descriptive and gentle literary style.
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Environmental History Timeline
Following conversations with other environmental historians. Long before Silent Spring, centuries before Greenpeace activists defied whalers' harpoons, many thousands of "green crusaders" tried to stop pollution, promote public health and preserve wi... |
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Silent Spring, Carson
First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. "Silent Spr... |
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