Rachel Carson grew up on a small Pennsylvania farm, where she spent hours exploring the outdoors. She always loved books, and when she was young thought she would be a writer. Her first ...

Lee was working on a play (her first) about the science writer Rachel Carson, whose 1962 book Silent Spring challenged the nation’s overuse and misuse of chemical pesticides and illuminated a ...

Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring was a landmark in the development of the modern environmental movement. Her scientific perspective about the effect of pesticides on the natural world sparked ...

All Mankind is in her debt', said one Senator on Rachel Carson's death in 1964 ... were a regular occurrence in the US, Carson's book 'Silent Spring' questioned the logic of releasing large ...

The Monterey Bay sparkles in morning sunlight as a person makes their way from Family Housing at UC Santa Cruz towards Rachel ...

Rachel Carson is the author of the best-seller “Silent Spring” and “The Sea Around Us,” which won the National Book Award for nonfiction. She was posthumously awarded the Presidential ...