This Spring, thanks to a gift from The Gould Family Foundation Foundation that not only supported the creation of the volume but that will also keep it in print in the series, “Rachel Carson: Silent Spring & Other Writings on the Environment” will join the works of Muir, Leopold, the Bartrams, and all the other great works contained in the series.
I was in my late thirties when I saw my first fireflies during a visit to the midwest. My companions, all very well acquainted with these crepuscular wonders, laughed heartily at both my initial shock and then rapt amazement at the other-worldly glow they produced as they hung in the warm evening air.
Anniversaries of significant books tend to bring about a bit of public reflection upon their subject. If the book was a non-fiction work, much of this reflection often surrounds whether or not its central thesis is still valid or whether the author’s predictions have come to pass. In the case of Rachel Carson’s – dare […]