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W B T L E Lesson 11 – Silent Spring I. Author II. Silent Spring III.Pesticide Background Information
ent Spring . Author Rachel Carson(1907- 1964) was an American biologist and writer. She was a quiet, private person, fascinated with the workings of nature from a scientific and aesthetic point of view W BTL E To b the next pag
W B T L E Rachel Carson (1907— 1964) was an American biologist and writer. She was a quiet, private person, fascinated with the workings of nature from a scientific and aesthetic point of view. Lesson 11 – Silent Spring I. Author To be continued on the next page
ent Spring . Author grew up on a small Pennsylvania farm, went to the pennsylvania College, majored in zoology and then went to John Hopkins for a master's degree in genetics published Under the Sea-Wind, then The Sea Around Us and The edge of the Sea, and Silent Spring, she was attacked personal of finally Silent Spring in 1962. In the wake and as a scientist by many. While she was working on Silent Spring, she was seriously ill, a niece died and left a young son whom she adopted, her mother died and she learned she had breast cancer died two years after Silent Spring was published, at age 56 W BTL E To be continued on the next page
W B T L E ➢ grew up on a small Pennsylvania farm, went to the Pennsylvania College, majored in zoology, and then went to John Hopkins for a master’s degree in genetics. ➢ published Under the Sea-Wind, then The Sea Around Us and The Edge of the Sea, and finally Silent Spring in 1962. In the wake of Silent Spring, she was attacked personally and as a scientist by many. While she was working on Silent Spring, she was seriously ill, a niece died and left a young son whom she adopted, her mother died, and she learned she had breast cancer. ➢ died two years after Silent Spring was published, at age 56. Lesson 11 – Silent Spring To be continued on the next page. I. Author
Lesson 11-silent Spring . Author Quotes from Rachel Carson a It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks that the insect controllers calculate. The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts a We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven 't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe. Man's attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature W BTL E To be continued on the next page
W B T L E Quotes from Rachel Carson It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks that the insect controllers calculate. The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts. We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe. Man's attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. Lesson 11 – Silent Spring To be continued on the next page. I. Author