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Rachel Carson’s Natural Histories
“The Sea Around Us” and “The Edge of the Sea” might not have the polemical force of “Silent Spring.” They share with it, though, the sense that life on earth is too complicated, and too strange, to be knowable and predictable. There are always hidden connections; there are always overlooked reservoirs of life, which, irrelevant to us as they may be today, could turn out to be important tomorrow.