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A worried world is turning in on Rachel Carson again for lots of good reasons and so are we.

She was a hard scientist of the environment who could speak bluntly.

About her masterpiece, Silent Spring, for example, she called it the Poison Book

or sometimes Man Against the Earth.

She was a common sense crusader who won sweeping victories.

She wrote High Flying Pros about oceans, for example, before she'd even seen one.

And about the love of her life as time was running out.

Her opening chapters of Silent Spring can sound today, it is said like,

God calling the world into being back in creation time.

Here is Rachel Carson in her own speaking voice on a CBS television special in 1963.

The tone was matter of fact and then unforgiving.

Man's attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired

a faithful power to alter and to destroy nature.

But man is part of nature and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.

I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature.

And I think we're challenged as mankind has never been challenged before

to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature, but of ourselves.

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