A masterpiece of scholarship and passion, “Silent Spring” is a moral call to action. Drawing on scientific research and bolstered by the immense popularity of her sea trilogy, Carson brought to shore, and into American neighborhoods, an eloquent and unapologetic devotion to nature and environmental protection. So rather than merely cataloging the sea life at my feet, I took Carson’s admonitions beyond the pool, beyond the sea’s gently curving horizon, and into the storms beating at the shores of contemporary public discourse.Ĭarson was unequivocal: The misuse of pesticides, particularly DDT, harmed living things. Understanding comes only when, standing on a beach, we can sense the long rhythms of earth and sea that sculptured its land-forms and produced the rock and sand of which it is composed when we can sense with the eye and ear of the mind the surge of life beating always at its shores - blindly, inexorably pressing for a foothold.” “To understand the shore, it is not enough to catalog its life.
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