The success of this book allowed Carson to quit her job and become a full-time writer. Rachel Carson ... of the natural world she loved. Lear's biography contains too much inconsequential detail ...

Franny Armstrong, creator of The Age of Stupid, looks at the explosive impact of Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring and its role in the growth of the environmental movement. Franny Armstrong ...

Silent Spring "made people think about the environment in a way they never had before. . . . Rachel Carson introduced to the general imagination the idea of ecology." Her book is often cited as ...