As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life—a fabric on the one hand delicate and destructible, on the other miraculously informed with power of recuperation and survival.
— Rachel Carson Modern

Silent Spring, environmentalism

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Silent Spring

Date / Period

1962

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Strange & Unusual

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