Rachel Carson, a biologist by training, became a writer by writing. But it was her love of nature--and particularly the world between the tide lines near her summer cottage in Maine--that made her ...

Stay up-to-date with the politics team. Sign up for the Teen Vogue Take In 1962, the biologist Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, which captured the public’s imagination and led to a shift ...

No one wrote more powerfully about humans’ poisoning the Earth and its consequences than biologist Rachel Carson — with a ...

The collection is a gift from Connecticut College alumna and author of Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature, Linda Lear. I began my research with an investigation of the reviews and reactions to the book ...

All Mankind is in her debt', said one Senator on Rachel Carson's death in 1964 ... industries at the prospect of man controlling nature, Carson introduced the idea that man's war against nature ...

The book "rivals Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring,” according to The Cincinnati Enquirer. He is also the author of THE NATURE PRINCIPLE and VITAMIN N and six additional books. His books have been ...

In 1962, the biologist Rachel Carson published Silent Spring ... one where humans could control nature. DDT in particular promised to combat insects that carried diseases or destroyed farmers ...

Rachel Carson grew up on a small Pennsylvania farm ... She was a quiet, private person, fascinated with the workings of nature from a scientific and aesthetic point of view.