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Rachel Carson (1907–1964) was an American marine biologist and author best known for her seminal work, Silent Spring which brought about the complex dangers to biodiversity from pesticide use, specifically DDT. It is considered an important starting point in launching a global environmental and conservationist movement and prompted the government to establish the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, along with the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Rachel Louise Carson: The One Who Shouted ‘Silent Spring’

“Man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself,” Carson once said.

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Celebrating Earth Day Through Eco-Spirituality

Eco-spirituality is about helping people experience “the holy” in the natural world and to recognize their relationship as human beings to all creation. However, eco-spirituality isn’t just a philosophy or a prayerful way of life. For Sister Ginny, it has been a passionate call to action.

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How ‘Silent Spring’ Ignited the Environmental Movement

Though she did not set out to do so, Carson influenced the environmental movement as no one had since the 19th century’s most celebrated hermit, Henry David Thoreau, wrote about Walden Pond. “Silent Spring” presents a view of nature compromised by synthetic pesticides, especially DDT...

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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.

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Silent Spring—I

If we are living so intimately with chemicals, we had better know something about their power.

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