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Rachel Carson was mother of the environmental movement when she wrote her book Silent Spring about the unexpected effects of pesticides published in 1962. At the time, this was completely uncharted territory. David Suzuki cites Rachel Carson as the major influence in his decision to become an environmentalist.
Rachel Louise Carson
Born: May 27, 1907
in Springdale, Pennsylvania
Died: April 14, 1964
in Silver Spring, Maryland |  |
Rachel Carson, writer, scientist, and ecologist, grew up simply in the rural river town of Springdale, Pennsylvania. Her mother bequeathed to her a life-long love of nature and the living world that Rachel expressed first as a writer and later as a student of marine biology. Carson graduated from Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham College) in 1929, studied at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, and received her MA in zoology from Johns Hopkins University in 1932.
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