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Rachel Carson
"The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction." -- Rachel Carson © 1954 -Rachel Carson- Rachel Carson was born on May 27, 1907, and raised on a farm throughout her childhood days in Springdale, Pennsylvania. During her childhood, her mother would encourage her to explore the natural surroundings and write about anything that appealed to her. In so doing, she had her first story published when she was in the fourth grade. The story was called “A Battle in the Clouds,” which appeared in the St. Nicholas Magazine. Miss Carson was the youngest of three children. Her role model when she was younger was her mother. Her mother introduced the “outer world” to Carson as a child. She says if it wasn’t for her mother, she wouldn’t be as interested in the environment as she was. Rachel Carson graduated from the Pennsylvania College for Women (which is now Chatham College), in 1929. She studied at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, and received her MA in zoology from John Hopkins University in 1932. After her education, Carson was hired by the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries to write radio scripts during the Depression and benefited her income writing articles on natural history for the Baltimore Sun. The radio show entitled, “Romance Under the Waters,” in which she was able to explore life under the seas and bring it to the listeners of the show. In 1936, after being the first woman to take and pass the civil service test, the Bureau of Fisheries hired her as a full-time junior biologist, and over the next 15 years, she was promoted frequently, until she was the chief editor of all publications for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Rachel Carson’s remarkable contributions to the field of biol... Please login to view comments from other users.
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