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Carson, Rachel Louise |
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Carson, Rachel Louise, 1907–64, American writer and marine biologist, b. Springdale, Pa., M.A. Johns Hopkins, 1932. Her well-known books on sea life—Under the Sea Wind (1941), The Sea Around Us (1951), and The Edge of the Sea (1954)—combine keen scientific observation with rich poetic description. Her Silent Spring (1962), a provocative study of the dangers of certain insecticides, is generally acknowledged as the impetus for the modern environmental movement.
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The call to an "education in ecological responsibility" is no where more eloquently served than in an exploration of the life and legacy of Rachel Carson. Miles loves the tidal flats of Puget Sound and can quote Rachel Carson from memory. Pittsburgh's Ninth Street Bridge is now the Rachel Carson Bridge, an Earth Day tribute to one of southeastern Pennsylvania's most famous natives and an ecologist known worldwide for her environmental classic Silent Spring. |
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