![]() ![]() The town was not real but had a "thousand counterparts in America or elsewhere in the world," explained the marine biologist turned writer. Few birds live anymore among the "strange stillness" and the "shadow of death." The culprit: Chemical pesticides. But soon a "strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change." The cattle and sheep die. The locality was perhaps the inspiration for the fictional town that she describes in her early classic of environmental writing, Silent Spring, a place with lush forests, diverse birdlife, copious farm animals, wild berries and fish-laden streams. ![]() ![]() Born in 1907, Rachel Carson was raised in a pristine farming region on the Allegheny River in Pennsylvania.
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