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Rachel Carson's Field Notes for Silent Spring

“In nature nothing exists alone.”

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Jillian Hess
Apr 15, 2024
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Next Monday is Earth Day, an annual event to support environmental protection. I can think of no better figure to celebrate in the week leading up to it than Rachel Carson (1907-1964), the scientist whose research supported Earth Day’s formation in 1970.

Rachel Carson’s most important book, Silent Spring, (1962) launched our contemporary environmental m…

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