Rachel Carson

"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,” Rachel Carson, a famous writer, ecologist, environmentalist, and scientist once said. Today she is remembered as an amazing woman, who, despite female prejudice during her time, overcame it all and made herself heard in the fight against pesticide usage and the acceptance and preservation of the ocean. (Lamar 250)
Rachel Carson was born May 27, 1907 grew up plainly in the bucolic river town of Springdale, Pennsylvania. Her mother bestowed in Carson a love of natural world as a young child, a characteristic that blossomed throughout her teenage years and influenced much of her life. (Marlow 333)
Carson graduated from Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham College) in 1929, studi...