Rachel Carson






Rachel Carson

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born
May 27, 1907

died
April 14, 1964

gender
female

place of birth
Springdale, Pennsylvania, The United States

website

genre
Outdoors & Nature, Science, Ecology

influences
Her mother, Nature


about this author

Rachel Carson, writer, scientist, and ecologist, grew up simply in the rural river town of Springdale, Pennsylvania. Her mother bequeathed to her a life-long love of nature and the living world that Rachel expressed first as a writer and later as a student of marine biology. Carson graduated from Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham College) in 1929, studied at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, and received her MA in zoology from Johns Hopkins University in 1932.

She was hired by the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries to write radio scripts during the Depression and supplemented her income writing feature articles on natural history for the Baltimore Sun. She began a fifteen-year career in the federal service as a scienti...more




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Silent Spring Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
avg rating 3.90 — 2,183 ratings — published 1962
32 editions
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The Sea Around Us The Sea Around Us
by Rachel Carson
avg rating 4.20 — 135 ratings — published 1954
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The Sense of Wonder The Sense of Wonder
by Rachel Carson
avg rating 4.52 — 94 ratings — published 1965
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The Edge of the Sea The Edge of the Sea
by Rachel Carson
avg rating 4.25 — 75 ratings — published 1955
3 editions
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Under the Sea-Wind Under the Sea-Wind
by Rachel Carson
avg rating 4.14 — 42 ratings — published 1941
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Lost Woods: The Discovered Wri... Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson
by Rachel Carson
avg rating 4.30 — 20 ratings — published 1998
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Always, Rachel: The Letters of... Always, Rachel: The Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, 1952-1964 - The Story of a Remarkable Friendship
by Rachel Carson
avg rating 4.15 — 13 ratings — published 1994
2 editions
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Lure of the Sea: Writings and... Lure of the Sea: Writings and Photographs
by Rachel Carson, Jack London
avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 1996
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The Edge of the Sea The Edge of the Sea
by Rachel Carson
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1955
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The Rocky Coast The Rocky Coast
by Rachel Carson, Bob Hines
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"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter."
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"If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in."
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"If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.
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Rachel Carson (The Sense of Wonder)
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