Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson wrote several popular books about aquatic life. Under the Sea Wind (1941)The Sea Around Us (1951)The Edge of the Sea (1955)

She also wrote a few articles designed to teach people about the wonder and beauty of the living world."Help Your Child to Wonder," (1956)"Our Ever-Changing Shore" (1957)

Rachel Carson

ReferencesMichals, Debra. "Rachel Carson." National Women's History Museum, 2015.Linda Lear, © 1998 (Revised 2015), author of Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.

Rachel Carson was a marine biologist and nature writer. Her research and publications sparked the movement that ultimately led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Born: May 27, 1907in Springdale, PADied: April 14, 1964 in Silver Spring, MD

Rachel Carson won a National Book Award, a national science writing-prize and a Guggenheim grant.Carson also received medals from the National Audubon Society, the American Geographical Society, and induction into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

"It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility."-Rachel Carson

“In nature nothing exists alone”-Rachel Carson

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction”-Rachel Carson

Carson's most notable work was published in 1962. Her book "Silent Spring" challenged the practices of agricultural scientists and the government of her time. She called for change in the way humankind viewed the natural world.

Rachel Carson's mother instilled a life-long love of nature and the living world.

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