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Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson is the author of the best-seller “Silent Spring” and “The Sea Around Us,” which won the National Book Award for nonfiction. She was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980.

Silent Spring—I

If we are living so intimately with chemicals, we had better know something about their power.

Silent Spring—I

If we are living so intimately with chemicals, we had better know something about their power.