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YORK, Maine — The York Art Association welcomes spring with its opening exhibit, “Silent Spring,” a show inspired by the season and honoring the legacy of environmentalist and author Rachel Carson.

Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, at her summer home in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images) “Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated.” – Anne ...

Environmentalists and Maryland legislators began a two-month-long celebration yesterday of the life of Rachel Carson, the Silver Spring-based activist whose book "Silent Spring" helped make ...

The reception of Silent Spring: an introduction / Craig Waddell -- Chemical fallout: Silent Spring, radioactive fallout, and the environmental movement / Ralph H. Lutts -- An inventional archaeology ...

In 1962, a former marine biologist published a book that would alter the way millions of Americans, and eventually people around the world, understood humanity’s relationship with nature. The book ...

No one could blame Rachel Carson for feeling beleaguered. In the fall of 1962 her book, "Silent Spring," unleashed both widespread praise and bitter, sometimes savage criticism. Former Secretary of ...