Silent Spring
American biologist well known for her writings on environmental issues. Carson’s prophetic Silent Spring (1962) became a best seller, creating worldwide awareness of the dangers of environmental pollution...
Time & Location
Sep 05, 2023, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Grand Mesa Arts & Events Center, 195 W Main St, Cedaredge, CO 81413, USA
About the Event
Brought to you by the Grand Mesa Arts & Events Center, Blue Sage Center for the Arts, and Delta County Libraries
Rachel Carson was born in 1907 in the rural town of Springdale, Pennsylvania. Inspired by the natural world around her and encouraged by her mother, she studied zoology and became a science writer, first for the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, and later for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. She went on to write popular books about nature. In her books Under the Sea Wind, The Sea Around Us, and The Edge of the Sea, Carson described the interconnectedness of living things and the environment.
As noted by her biographer Linda Lear, “Embedded within all of Carson's writing was the view that human beings were but one part of nature distinguished primarily by their power to alter it, in some cases irreversibly.”1
When the pesticide DDT became available for…