Rachel Carson:

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.

— Rachel Carson Modern

Silent Spring, environmentalism

Context

'Silent Spring'

Date / Period

1962

Source

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27333.Silent_Spring

Verification

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Explanation

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Method

Cross Reference

Sources Checked

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