![]() Carson, born in Springdale, Pennsylvania, worked as a marine biologist for what would become the US Fish and Wildlife Service before she dedicated herself to writing full time. ![]() An examination, written for the general public, of the effect of pesticides, especially DDT, on the environment and human health, Silent Spring begins with a chapter entitled “A Fable for Tomorrow” in which a small town in America finds a “strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change.” Birds and bees disappear, fish and baby piglets die off, plants wither, and “the farmers spoke of much illness among their families.” Spring comes, but without an abundance of life. This first edition of Silent Spring was published eight years before the first Earth Day but was a catalyst for the environmental activism that informed it. ![]() Rachel Carson, with illustrations by Lois and Louis Darling, Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962 A Fable for Tomorrow ![]()
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