1929- graduated with honors, earning a scholarship to continue her studies at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. 1932- M.A. in Zoology from John Hopkins University.  FAMILY BACKGROUND: The youngest
of three children, Rachel Carson had a rugged upbringing in a simple farmhouse
outside the western Pennsylvania river town of Springdale. She credited
her mother with introducing her to the world of nature that became her
lifelong passion.
During the 1940s, Carson began to write books on her observations of life under the sea, a world as yet unknown to the majority of people. She resigned from her government position in 1952 in order to devote all her time to writing. The idea for her most famous book, Silent Spring, emerged, and she began writing it in 1957. It was published in 1962, and influenced President Kennedy, who had read it, to call for testing of the chemicals mentioned in the book. Carson has been called the mother of the modern environmental movement.
Rachel Carson Council Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge Rachel Carson Forum - a center for "new ideas and opinions about environmental issues facing Pennsylvania." Former Vice-President Al Gore's Introduction to the 1994 reissue of Silent Spring Rachel Carson is a charter inductee into the Ecology Hall of Fame BIBLIOGRAPHY:
1943-Food From the Sea: Fish and Shellfish of New England 1944-Food From the Sea: Fish and Shellfish of the South Atlantic 1951-The Sea Around Us 1955-The Edge of the Sea 1962-Silent Spring 1965-The Sense of Wonder (posthumous) QUOTE:
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility. - Rachel Carson
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