Karen' Letter: On Silent Spring's 50th Anniversary
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Today is the 50th anniversary of the publication of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. A year or two after the book’s publication, soon after I learned to read, I picked it from a little rack on the sunlit windowsill of my grandparents’ house in southwestern Iowa. From that window I could see the outhouse we used (because there wasn’t enough water to have a whole family using the indoor plumbing) and the woods beyond where we played. I only read the first chapter then - enough to place Carson’s image of a world in which nature was falling silent deeply in my mind. I was, obviously, one among millions influenced by her in those days after the publication of
Karen' Letter: On Silent Spring's 50th Anniversary
Karen' Letter: On Silent Spring's 50th…
Karen' Letter: On Silent Spring's 50th Anniversary
Today is the 50th anniversary of the publication of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. A year or two after the book’s publication, soon after I learned to read, I picked it from a little rack on the sunlit windowsill of my grandparents’ house in southwestern Iowa. From that window I could see the outhouse we used (because there wasn’t enough water to have a whole family using the indoor plumbing) and the woods beyond where we played. I only read the first chapter then - enough to place Carson’s image of a world in which nature was falling silent deeply in my mind. I was, obviously, one among millions influenced by her in those days after the publication of