![]() ![]() "Rachel Carson is really, probably the most important author that Houghton Mifflin has published in the 20th Century, in my opinion," said Deanne Urmy, senior executive editor at Boston-based publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. She may have had a master’s degree in zoology and a successful career as a marine biologist for the US Fish and Wildlife Service, but it turns out Rachel Carson’s real gift was as a writer. It might never have made it into bookstores if it weren't for the efforts of a venerable Boston publisher. Silent Spring has been credited with launching the modern environmental movement. Those are the closing words of Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking 1962 work, Silent Spring, about the dangers of pesticides. “It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons, and that in turning them against the insects it has also turned them against the earth.” ![]()
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