William Souder at The Loft in Minneapolis Monday night to launch his new book about Rachel Carson. Fifty years after her famous book "Silent Spring" -- and 48 years after her death from breast cancer ...
Rachel Louise Carson was born on a family farm in Springdale, Pa. on May 27, 1907. After obtaining a master’s degree in zoology from Johns Hopkins in 1932, Carson taught there and at the University of ...
Stormy Sea Breaking on a Shore, by J.M.W. Turner.(Heritage Art / Heritage Images via Getty Images) Rachel Carson was a passionate and poetic writer, but she was not a particularly subtle one. When she ...
Fifty years ago, when Rachel Carson published "Silent Spring," the world changed forever. But in many ways the human disposition remains as it ever was: indifferent to the health of the natural ...
"The 'control of Nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that Nature exists for the convenience of man. The concepts and ...
Like many activists of the '60s, Rachel Carson fights against the tide of public opinion, and copes with professional and personal threats. And, like many activists, she uses mass media to spread her ...
"The 'control of Nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that Nature exists for the convenience of man. The concepts and ...
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