Rachel Carson

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brutish things that were being
done....Now I can believe I have at least helped a little.”1
Rachel Louis Carson was born on May 27, 1907 in Springdale, PA.
Her childhood was characterized by a love of nature and literature. Her
family said she was born with a “seashell in her ear”. She graduated from
the Pennsylvania College for Women in 1929 with a degree in Marine Biology
and from John Hopkins University in 1932 with a masters degree. The death
of her father and family was responsible for preventing her from pursuing
any further higher education. She took a job from the Fish and Wildlife
Service. She worked there from 1935 to 1952.
"The next period of Carson's life involved a close tie with nature,
which served as a foundation for her first book, published in 1941"While
working for the Fish and Wildlife service, Carson began to write. In 1941
Under the Sea Wind is published. In 1951 The Sea Around Us is published.
This book became a best seller and afforded Carson to quit ...

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: “You deserve
credit (or blame according to the point of view) for having brought my
attention back to this problem. I think that even you have forgotten,
however, that it was not just the copy of your letter to the newspaper but
your personal letter to me that started it all. In it you told what had
happened and your feelings about the prospect of a new and bigger spraying
and begged me to find someone in Washington who cold help. It was the task
of finding that ‘someone’ that I realized I must write the book.”
Planning her next book, Carson took the initiative to research the
background evidence of the dangers on the environment by man’s use of
deadly pesticides. Still uncertain ...

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