Silent Spring began with a "fable for tomorrow" – a true story using a composite of examples drawn from many real communities where the use of DDT had caused damage to wildlife, birds, bees ...

One study found that since their introduction they have made U.S. agriculture 48 times more toxic to insects. ... In “Silent Spring,” Carson asks, “who has the right to decide ...

In 1962 environmental scientist Rachel Carson published "Silent Spring," a bestselling book that asserted that overuse of pesticides was harming the environment and threatening human health ...

On publication day, September 27, 1962, the advance sales of Silent Spring totaled 40,000 copies and another 150,000 copies were sent to the Book of the Month Club.

'Silent Spring' sparked a movement that saved some of our most iconic wildlife species from extinction Author Rachel Carson’s book about the threat posed by the pesticide DDT ultimately led to ...

Sir David Attenborough, a naturalist, describes “Silent Spring” as the book which has most profoundly shaped the scientific world other than “On The Origin of Species”.

As Esquire magazine wrote, Silent Spring "made people think about the environment in a way they never had before. . . . Rachel Carson introduced to the general imagination the idea of ecology." ...