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Silent Springby Rachel Carson
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Silent Spring changed the way we thought about the environment and shaped today's environmental movement, calling us to action to protect our surroundings before we destroyed them. Today our impact on the environment is more harmful than ever, and Carson's message is just as important.
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First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. "Silent Spring became a runaway bestseller, with international reverberations....It is well crafted, fearless and succinct....Even if she had not inspired a generation of activists, Carson would prevail as one of the greatest nature writers in American letters" (Peter Matthiessen, for Time's 100 Most Influential People of the Century). This fortieth anniversary edition celebrates Rachel Carson's watershed book with a new introduction by the author and activist Terry Tempest Williams and a new afterword by the acclaimed Rachel Carson biographer Linda Lear, who tells the story of Carson's courageous defense of her truths in the face of ruthless assault from the chemical industry in the year following the publication of Silent Spring and before her untimely death in 1964.
"Her book is a cry to the reading public to help curb private and public programs which by use of poisons will end by destroying life on earth....Miss Carson, with the fervor of an Ezekiel, is trying to save nature and mankind." The New York Times
Rarely does a single book alter the course of history, but Rachel Carson's Silent Spring did exactly that. The outcry that followed its publication in 1962 forced the government to ban DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Carson's book was instrumental in launching the environmental movement. It is without question one of the landmark books of the twentieth century.
Rachel Carsons Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Carsons passionate concern for the future of our planet reverberated powerfully throughout the world, and her eloquent book was instrumental in launching the environmental movement. It is without question one of the landmark books of the twentieth century.
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Rachel Carson (1907–1964) spent most of her professional life as a marine biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. By the late 1950s, she had written three lyrical, popular books about the sea, including the best-selling The Sea Around Us, and had become the Bee Plumber 76: most respected science writer in America. She completed Silent Spring against formidable personal odds, and with it shaped a powerful social movement that has altered the course of history.
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FLORHAM PARK–It wouldn't be the Jets if there wasn't some sort of a roster move every week. Last week, the team waived Kenwin Cummings and per my sources, they will elevate Josh Mauga to the active roster. The team has not yet officially confirmed this.
I spoke to Mauga and he was told when they signed him to the practice squad that anything can happen. "Hard work does pay off," he said. "I just did everything they wanted me to do."
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Ben Hartsock took his family back to his hometown of Chillicothe, Ohio where his family owns a corn and soybean farm, Hartsock Ag, in neighboring Circleville. He taught me the tune they are taught as children to remember how to spell Chillocothe – it goes to the melody of the Mickey Mouse theme song. Anyway, Hartsock and his wife, took their daughters, ages one and three, on tractor rides and combine rides. They also went to the pumpkin show. The winning pumpkin weighed 1,622 pounds. Pumpkin burgers were available for purchase. The Ohio State marching band performed.
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Matt Kroul also went home to work on his family farm where they had a zebra in the petting zoo. From what I gathered from Hartsock and Matt Slauson whose family also owns a farm, the Kroul family farm, known as Kroul Farm Gardens & Greenhouses in Mt. Vernon, Iowa, is apparently quite impressive, the largest of anyone else's on the team. However, neither Kroul nor Slauson had ever heard of outhouse racing.
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