Because I wrote about how I researched Rachel Carson last week, I will now write about her life. She was born in Springdale, Pennsylvania on May 27, 1907. She was loved by her mother who would take on walks and teach her how to identify plant and bird species. While she was in college she changed her major from English to Biology after falling in love with it in Mary Skinker’s class. After she attended college at The Pennsylvania College for Women, she wrote one book about the sea by the name of Under The Sea-Wind. She later moved to Maine after falling in love with the ocean. She later wrote two more books about the sea by the names of: The Sea Around Us and The Edge Of The Sea.

She became good friends with Dorothy Freeman. Later they would end up writing love letters to each other. With the ending of WWII DDT was a new and ‘Amazing’ substance for killing unwanted pests. At this point in time humans felt that they could control nature. Rachel thought that this was terrible and saw the obvious destruction to our environment, so she wrote a book named Silent Spring and changed our thoughts on our environment. This later led to the ban of DDT and the Environmental Movement. She died April 14, 1964 because of breast cancer. What would her reaction be to the ban of DDT? What could the doctor who diagnosed her with breast cancer have done better? How did she persist even with large chemical companies trying to silence her?