week pick | Rachel Carson
Back when we were young and impressionable, the writing of Rachel Carson introduced us to topics and issues that opened up a magical and mysterious world.
At wonder | wander | world we are grateful and forever enriched by her stories and insights.
Author, biologist, conservationist, and leading pioneer of the global environmental movement — her life, legacy, and revolutionary writing have greatly impacted the world. We give homage to the literature and environmental education she shared — which still remain our treasured and eternal companion.
Rachel Louise Carson is well known for her Silent Spring book (1962) that challenged the use of chemical pesticides and launched an environmental movement. Not many knew that before she wrote about the silencing of birds she was a marine biologist and wrote a trilogy about the ocean.
In her essay and book The Sense of Wonder — when her grandnephew visits Carson for a summer at her cottage in Maine — together they wander through the surrounding woods and tide pools.
Teaching Roger about the natural wonders around them — she relates to her readers how she too experiences them anew — sharing these same magical moments of awe with us, her audience.
Learn more about her story and legacy. Read her writing for yourself — it is the ideal way to honor her this Earth Day — April 22.
Originally published at http://woaworld.blogspot.com.
