Rachel Carson

This is the homepage of Rachel Carson. Org, a “website devoted to the life and legacy of Rachel Carson.” There, you'll find a photo, some audio files, and lots of related links.

Here's a page from Time magazine, placing Carson within the “Time 100: Scientists & Thinkers.” This page has a biographical sketch, a photo, and links to a slide show and a quiz about Carson.

This biography page from the Women in History site also includes links, a bibliography, and a quote by Carson.

Interested in environmental issues such as those Carson explored, but not sure how to narrow your topic? This Google.com directory about the environment will help you in this task.

Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection has named a forum after Carson. Click here to learn more about it.

Here's Carson's citation from the Ecology Hall of Fame. Click around the site to see if you recognize any of the other honorees. How would you go about finding more information about them? What other information does the site have about Carson?

Carson's work can be seen to have a direct impact on world events such as Earth Day. Here's the homepage of a site dedicated to Earth Day. Why not take a visit and find out something you didn't know before.

This page has a link to a speech Carson gave before the National Women's Press Club in 1962.

Would you like some more information about Carson's book Silent Spring? This page takes a look at it from many different perspectives.

Here is an excerpt from the book Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature. After reading the excerpt are you interested in reading the rest of the book? Why or why not?