Rachel Louise Carson was born on a family farm in Springdale, Pa. on May 27, 1907. After obtaining a master’s degree in zoology from Johns Hopkins in 1932, Carson taught there and at the University of ...

Biologist Rachel Carson (1907-1964), an outspoken forerunner of the environmental movement and author of the National Book Award-winning The Sea Around Us (1951), is best known for her groundbreaking, ...

Stormy Sea Breaking on a Shore, by J.M.W. Turner.(Heritage Art / Heritage Images via Getty Images) Rachel Carson was a passionate and poetic writer, but she was not a particularly subtle one. When she ...

"The 'control of Nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that Nature exists for the convenience of man. The concepts and ...

In her introduction to the 40th-anniversary edition of Silent Spring, biographer and historian Linda Lear, author of the acclaimed biography Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature notes, "Carson was ...