It's Rachel Carson's Birthday. Use Pesticides Sparingly "A the end of May, with the air full of bird song, it's fitting to remember that today is the birth date of the late Rachel Carson, born May 27, 1907." Rachel Louise Carson was a marine biologist, author, and conservationist. Her most popular book, Silent Spring , detailed the harmful effects of pesticides on our environment. She accused the chemical industry of spreading disinformation to the public and public officials of accepting their claims without question. She really sounds like an awesome person. I'd like to think we could have been friends. It was her poetic style of writing and well researched facts that made her books so attractive to wider audiences. “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 ...