Silent Spring

"She is a scientist, an activist, an environmentalist, and an amazing writer. Her holistic outlook on nature and nurture and science and society is one I’ve carried with me always."

"Carson’s book draws its enduring power from the combination of her deep love for the natural world and her indignation at the attacks waged upon it by the chemical industry. A former marine biologist, Carson was battling an aggressive cancer when she wrote this 1962 masterpiece."

"Probably the most important book on the environment ever written, and once you read it, it is easy to see why."