Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
Fifty years after publication, Silent Spring remains one of the most infl uential books of the 20th century.
Carson's eloquent, carefully researched arguments about the eff ect of pesticides on our environment helped launch the US environmental movement, led to a ban on DDT, and laid the ground work for the
Environmental Protection Agency.
Most importantly, Silent Spring framed fundamental questions about life on our planet and about the responsibility we have to each other and to other species, questions as important today as in 1962.
