In “Silent Spring,” published 50 years ago, Rachel Carson warned about pesticides’ toll on nature.Credit…Alfred Eisenstaedt/Time Life Pictures, via Getty Images
“The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.”
― Rachel Carson
Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist whose sea trilogy and book Silent Spring are credited with advancing marine conservation and the global environmental movement. Wikipedia
