Among the most seminal of these works is Rachel ... momentum Carson’s work had generated. The book’s influence was not confined to the United States. Around the world, Silent Spring inspired ...

the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring — which some called the most controversial book of the year — put the nation and world on alert to the dangers of overuse and misuse of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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." Her book is often cited as ...

and her work there ripples into the present, when a group of scientists connect the base's work to mysterious deaths in their community. In the first episode, she receives the book "Silent Spring" by ...

Rachel Carson had released her book Silent Spring, which highlighted the hazards of the pesticide DDT and questioned humanity's faith in technological progress. Carson's book influenced social change ...

and her case, though effectively put, is peculiarly lopsided. This book is rather similar to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, another crusading volume. Miss Mitford does not write as well as Miss ...

We have returned to the most peaceful place I have ever known: a simple retreat built in the 1950s by Rachel Carson ...

What causes heart disease — high fat or the over-consumption of sugar? Humans have been eating all sorts of foods for more than 200,000 years, since we evolved from the African savannah. But what ...

In contrast, Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” sent a cry that affected the whole world’s view and action on the dangers of the then insecticide/soil treatments in use. Her foresight and ...

especially for Rachel Carson, a famous nature writer in the 1950s and 1960s. Carson, who was a marine biologist by trade, used her growing fear of complete and utter silence to write her most popular ...