Rachel Louise Carson: Mother of the Modern Environmental Movement

In 1962, Rachel Carson had a chilling vision. She saw a time when “On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh.” Carson took action based on her vision, starting the modern environmental movement.

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