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Rachel Carson

(27 May 1907 - 14 Apr 1964)

American marine biologist, conservationist and writer whose book Silent Spring (1962), denounced the indiscriminate use of pesticides, and helped launch the modern environmental movement.

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It is more important to pave the way for the child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts he is not ready to assimilate.

— Rachel Carson

In The Sense of Wonder (1956, 1965), 45.

When I think of the floor of the deep sea, the single, overwhelming fact that possesses my imagination is the accumulation of sediments.

— Rachel Carson

(1961).

Rachel Carson quote: If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult wh

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Rachel Carson quote: A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.

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Rachel Carson quote: In that dawn chorus [of birds] one hears the throb of life itself.

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27 May - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Carson's birth.
Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson. - book suggestion.
Booklist for Rachel Carson.

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion. (1987) -- Carl Sagan

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