Rachel Louise Carson was born on a family farm in Springdale, Pa. on May 27, 1907. After obtaining a master’s degree in zoology from Johns Hopkins in 1932, Carson taught there and at the University of ...

Fifty years ago, when Rachel Carson published "Silent Spring," the world changed forever. But in many ways the human disposition remains as it ever was: indifferent to the health of the natural ...

"The 'control of Nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that Nature exists for the convenience of man. The concepts and ...