silent spring
Silent Spring By: Rachel Carson Summary Silent spring is a significant book about how the use of deadly insecticides damaged our environment. ... In the begging of the book Rachel describes some sort of perfect spring where everything is in harmony. ... Investigation Rachel Carson was a very courageous woman for writing silent spring. Silent spring was one of the most controversial scientific books in the history of the United States. ... Rachel Carson wrote many other books besides silent spring, including the sea around us, under the sea wind, the edge of the sea, and the sense of wonder. Two years after silent spring was published, Carson died from breast cancer. ... This has affected my generation because without Rachel Carson writing silent spring we wouldn’t have the environmental protection act. ... “over increasingly large amounts of the united states, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song. ... ” This quote from the book sums up why Carson titled the book silent spring. Spring is silent with out the presence of birds.