We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.
The other fork of the road -- the one less traveled by -- offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth. Rachel Carson
With the current administration waging a all out war of the environment and calling global warming fiction, it was time to feature a woman known for her studies and campaigns for nature and the environment. Below you will find quips from and links to web sites where you can read more throughly about this strong and driven advocate for the environment. VF
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| fish pattern by virginia fitzgerald, "always inspired by the sea. as my senior project I created a wall mounted, soft sculpture aquarium." |
Perhaps the finest nature writer of the Twentieth Century, Rachel Carson (1907-1964) is remembered more today as the woman who challenged the notion that humans could obtain mastery over nature by chemicals, bombs and space travel than for her studies of ocean life. Her sensational book Silent Spring (1962) warned of the dangers to all natural systems from the misuse of chemical pesticides such as DDT, and questioned the scope and direction of modern science, initiated the contemporary environmental movement. www.rachelcarson.org
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