.and even if she had not inspired a generation of activists, Carson would prevail as one of the greatest nature writers in American letters" writes environmentalist Peter Matthiessen (Matthiessen pp)
S. Fish and Wildlife Service wrote in the January 1999 that, "Regrettably, some of the same issues concerning the environmental consequences of using pesticides, especially when they are misused or overused, remained unsolved" (Henry Pp)
Rachel Carson once wrote, "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" (Women pp). That quote and Carson's work lives on in Kaiulani Lee's one-woman play, "A Sense of Wonder," about the writer, biologist and environmental activist (Gebhardt Pp)
Silent Spring Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring is filled with a "hodgepodge of science and junk science," creating a "Disneyfied version of Eden," according to some modern reviewers (Tierney 2007)
Susan Power Bratton believes she has a handle on points Carson was making. Bratton writes in the journal Ethics & The Environment, "Humans need to understand the scale and complexity of ocean ecosystems" (Bratton, 2004, p
Along with the sea trout and pompano are young ceros, sheepshead and sea bass. The life is "oozing from them" because as fish they cannot get across "a few yards of dry sand and return to the sea," their home until uprooted by the fishermen (Carson, p
By covering the migration of birds and fish, Ouetchenbach continues, Carson accomplishes her purpose of introduce "freshwater ecology" that includes herons, ospreys, and raccoons. The technique "…along with the reiteration of descriptive circular motifs and ideas, gives the book coherence" (Ouetchenbach, 2007)