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The ability to weave together poetry and science is today something of a lost art. Yet there was a time when the two were nearly inextricable from each other.
Today, Rachel Carson is best known by most people for her fourth and most-famous book Silent Spring, which many credit as the spark that ignited the modern-day environmental movement. But long before Silent Spring was a twinkle in her mind’s eye, Carson had published a series of books about the sea that stand beside the likes of Thoreau’s Walden and Burroughs’ Signs and Seasons, taking their place as some of the most important American nature writing.
The genius of Carson’s writing was the ability to weave together enchanting literary prose with cutting edge marine biology of the day. This was new…
