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| | washingtonpost.com: Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature |
 | | Rachel was so taken by his account of the bravery of the aviator that she retold the story in her own words for the St. Nicholas League. | | | These stories and drawings reflect not only Rachel's keen observation of bird and animal life but the kind of children's literature she was reading and being read. | | | In fourth grade, Rachel wrote a story called "A Sleeping Rabbit." Her cover illustration shows a plump white rabbit sitting with eyes closed in a chair beside a small round table on which are placed a candle and a book entitled Peter Rabbit. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/rachelcarson.htm
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| | Rachel Carson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Carson was violently assailed by threats of lawsuits and derision, including suggestions that this meticulous scientist was a "hysterical woman" unqualified to write such a book. | | | To Carson's astonishment and delight, it was accepted, and published as "Undersea" in 1937. | | | Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature, Linda Lear, Henry Holt, New York, 1997, Owl Books paperback 1998: ISBN 0805034285 |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson
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| | Biography of Rachel Carson |
| | Carson's first book, Under the Sea-Wind, published in 1941, highlighted her unique ability to present deeply intricate scientific material in clear poetic language that could captivate her readers and pique their interest in the natural world. | | | Her concern was accelerated with the introduction of DDT in 1945. | | | In 1951 Carson's second book, The Sea Around Us, was published and eventually translated into 32 languages. |
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http://www.fws.gov/northeast/rachelcarson/carsonbio.html
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| | Rachel Carson |
| | Today, because Carson's work led to the ban on DDT, some of the species that were her special concern- eagles and peregrine falcons, for example- are no longer at the edge of extinction. | | | Her work, the truth she brought to light, the science and research she inspired, stand not only as powerful arguments for limiting the use of pesticides but as powerful proof of the difference that one individual can make. | | | My sister and I didn't like every book that made it to that table, but our conversations about Silent Spring are a happy and vivid memory. |
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http://clinton2.nara.gov/WH/EOP/OVP/24hours/carson.html
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| | Rachel Carson |
| | In her lifetime, Rachel Carson published only four books. | | | The correspondence between them charts the growth of their long affection; it also offers much detail about Carson's concerns as a writer and scientific reporter, to say nothing of her misgivings about being anointed as one of the environmental movement's chief intellectual leaders. | | | Reintroducing a classic work to a whole new generation of readers, this Special Edition features a new chapter written by Jeffrey Levinton, a leading expert in marine ecology, that brings the scientific side of the book completely up to date. |
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http://www.queertheory.com/histories/c/carson_rachel.htm
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| | NRDC: The Story of Silent Spring |
| | Although she rarely used the term, Carson held an ecological view of nature, describing in precise yet poetic language the complex web of life that linked mollusks to sea-birds to the fish swimming in the ocean's deepest and most inaccessible reaches. | | | Against overwhelming difficulties and adversity, but motivated by her unabashed love of nature, she rose like a gladiator in its defense. | | | The book's most haunting and famous chapter, "A Fable for Tomorrow," depicted a nameless American town where all life -- from fish to birds to apple blossoms to human children -- had been "silenced" by the insidious effects of DDT. |
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http://www.nrdc.org/health/pesticides/hcarson.asp
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| | The Lies of Rachel Carson |
| | If Carson had mentioned these pertinent details it would have devastated her major theme, which continued to be the awful threats posed by DDT to all nonhuman creatures on the face of the Earth. | | | Carson says arsenic is a carcinogen (identified from chimney soot) and mentions a great many horrible ways in which it is violently poisonous to vertebrates. | | | Carson’s claim, therefore, that those three kinds of birds are less and less able to produce young is remarkably false—and insulting to the reader. |
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http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/summ02/Carson.html
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| | Rachel Carson |
| | Carson, Rachel Louise (1907-64), American marine biologist, author of widely read books on ecological themes. | | | In 1962, Carson published Silent Spring, her fourth book on nature. | | | "There remains, in this space-age universe," wrote Rachel Carson, "the possibility that man's way is not always best." We would do well to remember her warning. |
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http://www.evgschool.org/rachel_carson.htm
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| | EPA History - Rachel Carson |
| | Carson's stature grew in succeeding years with the re-publication of Under the Sea-Wind and the writing of a new book, The Edge of the Sea. | | | She had chosen as her subject nothing less than the sea itself, and when her book, The Sea Around Us, appeared, the response stunned even this artist-scientist. | | | is author of Since Silent Spring, an account of the impact of Rachel Carson's book. |
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http://www.epa.gov/history/topics/perspect/carson.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Silent Spring: Books: Rachel Carson |
| | Carson's book led to significant changes in environmental law (some would say not enough change) and resulted in the outright ban of DDT. | | | Carson delivers a stinging rebuke to our conception of mankind as the dominant force in the universe. | | | For those misinformed souls who think DDT is not toxic, you lie or you have been lied to. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0618249060?v=glance
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| | FrontPage magazine.com :: Rachel Carson's Ecological Genocide by Lisa Makson |
| | What he discovered was not only did Carson rely upon "very unscientific sources," but she cited many of the same sources over and over again in order to make her book appear incontrovertible. | | | As a result, DDT would eventually work its way up the food chain, killing off first the bugs, then the worms, then the birds (hence her title), the fish and finally mankind. | | | Her1962 bestselling book Silent Spring detailed the alleged "dangers" of the pesticide DDT, which had practically eliminated malaria. Within ten years, the environmentalist movement had convinced the powers that be to outlaw DDT. |
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http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=9169
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| | Pittsburgh AYH Rachel Carson Trail |
| | A new edition of the Rachel Carson Trail Guide is available. | | | Each one was different and each has there own story. | | | Never stop in people’s yards or in their driveways to rest or repair. |
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http://www.hipittsburgh.org/rachelcarson.html
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| | The My Hero Project - Rachel Carson |
| | In 1955, upon completion of The Edge of the Sea, the final book in her trilogy about the sea, Carson began focusing on her growing concern over the effects of chemicals and pesticides on the environment. | | | This brave woman laid out the startling facts of what man was doing to nature and ultimately to himself. | | | Carson's underlying philosophy was that humans are interdependent with nature. |
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http://myhero.com/hero.asp?hero=rcarson
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| | EO Library: Rachel Carson |
| | Her work was widely praised for its accessibility, beauty of language and scientific accuracy. | | | A feeling of absolute fascination for every thing related to the ocean, and a determination that I would someday be a writer." | | | In 1952, Rachel Carson was finally able to leave her job to concentrate full-time on her writing. |
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http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/Giants/Carson
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| | Rachel Carson |
| | Carson did not live long enough to see her dreams come true. | | | Finally, at the age of eleven, three of her articles were published. | | | Rachel would submit her writings to the magazine hoping they would someday be published. |
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http://www.henry.k12.ga.us/pges/instruction/kid-pages/women/Carson.html
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| | Rachel Carson - Conservation Hall of Fame - National Wildlife Federation |
| | Two years into her tenure as an English composition major at Pennsylvania College for Women, Rachel Carson found herself so fascinated by a required biology course that she decided to abandon literature to become a scientist. | | | Uniting the gifts of the scientist with the talents of the poet, she interpreted nature in accessible terms and revolutionized a nation's attitude about the natural world. | | | The success of Carson's second book, The Sea Around Us, offered her hard-won financial independence in the late 1950s, and the freedom to resign from her job as chief of publications for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to focus on her writing. |
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http://www.nwf.org/halloffame/inductees_carson.html
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| | Rachel Carson Society - Planned Giving - Membership - Sierra Club |
| | She was a visionary with the heart of a poet who optimistically believed that there was hope in the reparation of mankind's relationship with nature. | | | Rachel Carson was one of those unique individuals whose life and work dramatically influenced society. | | | Though she never married, she cared for her mother and two nieces. |
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http://www.sierraclub.org/membership/plannedgiving/rachelcarsonsociety.asp
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| | Rachel Carson |
| | In writing this book, she was questioning not only the indiscriminant use of poisons but the basic irresponsibility of an industrialized, technological society toward the natural world. | | | Rachel never married, but she was a care-giver to her family. | | | The House of Life Rachel Carson at Work. |
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http://www.engr.psu.edu/wep/EngCompSp98/EBeckner/rachel.html
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| | Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge |
| | Carson simply and convincingly explained the connections between humans and all creatures of the Earth. | | | Rachel Carson was a world-renowned marine biologist, author and environmentalist. | | | As fitting recognition of her tireless work, this refuge, first known as the Coastal Maine National Wildlife Refuge, was renamed in her honor on October 28, 1969 and formally dedicated June 27, 1970. |
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| | Rachel Carson Homestead: Rachel Carson Biography |
| | Her mother bequeathed to her a life-long love of nature and the living world that Rachel expressed first as a writer and later as a student of marine biology. | | | Embedded within all of Carson's writing was the view that human beings were but one part of nature distinguished primarily by their power to alter it, in some cases irreversibly. | | | These books constituted a biography of the ocean and made Carson famous as a naturalist and science writer for the public. |
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| | The Rachel Carson Homestead Association |
| | This RCHA uses the Homestead to teach about Rachel Carson as an historic figure and about her philosophy of the interconnectedness of nature and our role in it. | | | Through her eloquent writings Rachel Carson awakened people all over the world to the idea that we are inseparable from nature and that what we do to it we do to ourselves. | | | In her books, especially Silent Spring, she presented meticulously researched facts to support her premise that we cannot continue to poison our environment and not suffer the consequences. |
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| | Reason |
| | Rereading Silent Spring reminds one that the book’s effectiveness was due mainly to Carson’s passionate, poetic language describing the alleged horrors that modern synthetic chemicals visit upon defenseless nature and hapless humanity. | | | Memorably, she painted a scenario in which birds had all been poisoned by insecticides, resulting in a "silent spring" in which "no birds sing." | | | The plain fact is that DDT has never been shown to be a human carcinogen even after four decades of intense scientific scrutiny. |
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| | RACHEL CARSON, PENNSYLVANIA BIOGRAPHIES |
| | These bans are the direct reason why birds such as the bald eagle and peregrine falcon are now able to come off the endangered species list. | | | Carson is remembered so much for her work on that book that perhaps, sadly, she will be forgotten as one of the greatest nature writers of the United States. | | | In 1962, Rachel Carson published her famous book Silent Spring. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/4547/carson.html
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| | Ecology Hall of Fame: Rachel Carson |
| | The book remained on the bestseller list for months and remains in print now, 34 years later. | | | This was one of the latest in a long line of tributes to a woman who almost single-handedly alerted Americans to the dark side of science in alliance with industrial society. | | | One measure of her influence may be seen in the fact that chemical industry sources are still passionately trying to convince people that she was wrong, that "man" can "control" nature through chemistry. |
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| | Rachel Carson NERR |
| | The islands and estuarine waters at the Rachel Carson site are strongly influenced by river and inlet dynamics and the twice-daily tides. | | | The Rachel Carson site can only be visited by boat. | | | Town Marsh, Carrot Island and Bird Shoal receive the most use because of their easy access by boat. |
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| | The Rachel Carson Homestead: Birthplace of a Healthier Planet |
| | Visit and experience first-hand the surroundings that made Rachel Carson a fierce and poetic defender of the natural world. | | | Today, more than ever, the issues we face call for the kind of responses Rachel Carson espoused in her writings and her actions. | | | The Rachel Carson Homestead Association (RCHA) is located at the birthplace and home for some 22 years of scientist and author Rachel Carson (1907-1964). |
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| | Carson |
| | Meanwhile, she wrote scripts called "Seven Minute Fish Tales" for a radio series. | | | In 1961, Carson published The Sea Around Us, for which she won the National Book Award. | | | An avid reader and eager writer, she wrote poetry while studying zoology at the Pennsylvania College for Women and Johns Hopkins. |
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| | A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries: Rachel Carson |
| | Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts." (from Sense of Wonder) | | | She always loved books, and when she was young thought she would be a writer. | | | She was a quiet, private person, fascinated with the workings of nature from a scientific and aesthetic point of view. |
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| | TIME 100: Rachel Carson |
| | Under the Sea-Wind (1941), Carson's favorite among her books, would pass almost unnoticed. | | | But for all her modesty and restraint, she was not prim. | | | She was always a writer, and she always knew that. |
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| | Rachel Carson -- 40 Years Later |
| | Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of the Century - A brief description of why Rachel Carson 'made the list.' Written by another supreme nature writer, Peter Matthiessen. | | | The Story of Silent Spring - A good, concise discussion of Rachel Carson, and her impact on the world. | | | A Scientist Alerts the Public to the Hazards of Pesticides - A very complete coverage of Rachel Carson, her background, and her scientific work. |
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| | Rachel Carson |
| | Rachel credits her mother for opening her eyes to the natural world. | | | Rachel shared her love of animals with other members of her family, especially her mother. | | | The name Rachel Carson may not sound familiar, but because of her, there are flowers in bloom, fish in the streams, and birds in the sky. |
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http://www.wc.pdx.edu/rachelcarson/rachelcarson.html
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| | Rachel Carson biography |
| | During the 1940s, Carson began to write books on her observations of life under the sea, a world as yet unknown to the majority of people. | | | She credited her mother with introducing her to the world of nature that became her lifelong passion. | | | DESCRIPTION OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS: After completing her education, Carson joined the U. Bureau of Fisheries as the writer of a radio show entitled "Romance Under the Waters," in which she was able to explore life under the seas and bring it to listeners. |
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| | Online Ethics Center: Rachel Carson and Silent Spring |
| | This essay by Philip Cafaro discusses several respects in which Rachel Carson's life and work might point the way forward for environmental ethics. | | | This page and supporting pages were created by Emily Chen. | | | First, Carson's frequent criticisms of human attempts to dominate nature suggest important parallels with contemporary ecofeminism. |
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http://onlineethics.org/moral/carson
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| | MNCPPC: Rachel Carson Greenway Trail Corridor Plan Underway |
| | Carson's achievements and help realize her lifelong goal to make people more aware of the wonders of the natural world. | | | In this classic book, she drew attention to the dangers of chemical pesticides and herbicides to public health and the environment. | | | Carson, a world renowned scientist and ecologist, lived in Montgomery County when she wrote Silent Spring in 1962. |
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http://www.mc-mncppc.org/trails/rc_greenway/rc_greenway.shtm
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| | Rachel Was Wrong |
| | Published in 1962, Carson's book suggested that the human use of synthetic chemicals amounted to a "relentless war on life" and that modern society was "losing the right to be called civilized." Americans experienced widespread angst over the potential carcinogenic effects of chemicals over the subsequent decades. | | | Over thirty years after Silent Spring's publication, a wealth of scientific evidence suggests that many of the concerns Carson raised were unfounded. | | | Jonathan Tolman's CEI study "Nature's Hormone Factory: Endocrine Disrupters in the Natural Environment" is available from CEI for $6.00. |
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| | The Rachel Carson Issues Forum |
| | Pennsylvania's Rachel Carson challenged the world to think differently about environmental issues in her 1962 book "Silent Spring." | | | She put a premium not only on scientific understanding, but the need to communicate those findings and ideas to others. | | | To honor her spirit of inquiry and communication, we are creating The Rachel Carson Forum to showcase new ideas and opinions on environmental issues facing Pennsylvania. |
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| | Rachel Carson Trail Challenge — Rachel Carson Trails Conservancy |
| | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "The Rachel Carson Trail is 34 miles of tough terrain and natural beauty" | | | Unlike a footrace, the "challenge" is not to "come in first" or "win", but to endure, to finish the hike in one day. | | | How I learned to love/hate the Rachel Carson Trail Challenge" |
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| | North Carolina - Rachel Carson Estuarine Research Reserve |
| | The trail meanders through mudflats, uplands, and salt marshes, illustrating the various unique environments found in estuarine systems. | | | This string of small islands is located across Taylor’s Creek from historic Beaufort and on the sound side of Shackleford Banks. | | | Birding / Hiking / Canoeing-Kayaking / Boat Ramp |
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http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/northcarolina/preserves/art5623.html
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| | Democracy Now! Rachel Carson |
| | Rachel Carson, the mother of the modern environmental movement and authorof the groundbreaking book Silent Spring. | | | This speech was delivered beforethe National Women's Press Club in Washington, DC on December 4, 1962. | | | Help Printer-friendly version Email to a friend Purchase Video/CD |
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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/0331227
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| | Rachel Louise Carson |
| | May 27 Birthdays: Henry Kissinger - May 27 birthdays: Henry Kissinger, Wild Bill Hickok, Rachel Louise Carson, Dashiell Hammett, Julia Ward Howe, John Cheever, Cornelius Vanderbilt | | | More on Rachel Louise Carson from Fact Monster: | | | Carson, Rachel Louise, 1907–64, American writer and marine biologist, b. |
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| | Rachel Carson Scuba Corps |
| | Let's face it -- sometimes you just want to get in the water without spending a lot of time, effort and $$ getting there. | | | Instead of spending our time planning exotic dive vacations, we get involved in ecological and other projects with government agencies and private organizations. | | | So if you live in the Chicago area and want to get involved in projects like the Rachel Carson Scuba Park |
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| | Rachel Carson |
| | Rachel Carson 1907-1964 - People and Discoveries - PBS | | | Carson, Rachel Louise - Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | | | Rachel Louise Carson (1907-1964) - Pennsylvania Dept. of Environment Protection |
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| | rachel carson middle school |
| | administration, staff, profile, school plan, vision in progress, business partners, rachel louise carson |
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| | Rachel Carson Institute |
| | Photo on left : Portrait of Rachel Carson by Minnette D. Bickel, 1987 | | | © 2003 Rachel Carson Institute, Pittsburgh, PA Site by : Wall-to-Wall Studios | | | - Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962), p. |
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