Rachel L. Carson
Rachel L. Carson was a marine biologist, conservationist, and writer. Before writing Silent Spring, her best-known book, Carson made her mark as an environmental journalist with the Atlantic essay “Undersea.” The essay was later expanded into her first book, Under the Sea-Wind. Carson’s work is credited with advancing the environmental movement and leading to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Undersea
“To sense this world of waters known to the creatures of the sea we must shed our human perceptions of length and breadth and time and place, and enter vicariously into a universe of all-pervading water.”
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