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Article: Rachel Carson.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- New York State Conservationist
- Article date:
- February 1, 2002
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2002 New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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"We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road--the one `less traveled by'--offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of our earth."
These words, taken from Rachel Carson's classic work Silent Spring, convey the style and emotion present in her writing which sparked the environmental movement. Hailed as one of the most critical and affective books in environmental writing, its ...
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