The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
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Birth: | 27th May, 1907 |
Death: | 14th April, 1964 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Environmentalist, Writer |
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Rachel Louise Carson was an American marine biologist and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement. Carson began her career as an aquatic biologist in the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries and became a full-time nature writer in the 1950s. Her widely praised 1951 bestseller The Sea Around Us won her a U.S. National Book Award, recognition as a gifted writer, and financial security. Her next book, The Edge of the Sea, and the reissued version of her first book, Under the Sea Wind, were also bestsellers. This sea trilogy explores the whole of ocean life from the shores to the depths.
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