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Rachel Carson

American · 1907–1964

Marine biologist and conservationist whose book Silent Spring catalyzed the modern environmental movement.

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“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”

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Acceptance speech for the John Burroughs Medal ↗ (1952)

“In nature nothing exists alone.”

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Silent Spring ↗ (1962)