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Article: Love, dread drove Carson.
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- April 22, 2007
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Byline: Candus Thomson
Apr. 22--SILVER SPRING -- From a chair in a sun-dappled corner of her back porch, Rachel Carson embraced the birds and flowers around her. But she also envisioned their demise.
That fierce love and a sense of dread drove Carson to write Silent Spring, the cornerstone of the environmental movement, even as she battled the breast cancer that would kill her just 18 months after the book's publication in 1962.
Her warnings about pesticides such as DDT galvanized a generation of activists, many of whom gathered 37 years ago today for the first Earth Day, a grassroots plea for a cleaner planet. Later in 1970, President Richard ...
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