Rachel Louise Carson was born on May 27, 1907, in Springdale, Pennsylvania.1 As a child, Carson had already shown signs of high intelligence and a deep adoration for the ocean and nature. She decided to pursue her lifelong love of the ocean and became a student of marine biology at the Pennsylvania College for Women, where she graduated in 1929. But it wasn't until the 1940s that Carson worked as a scientist and editor for the United United. Fish and Wildlife Service's Fisheries Bureau, that her passion and literary work would take her to a level of popularity she had never known before. By 1958 Carson had become very popular as a writer and environmentalist. When he discovered that the United States was tampering with the creation of synthetic chemical insecticides, namely the new and incredibly harmful DDT (dichloride-diphenyl-trichloro-ethane) and its indiscriminate use on insects, he knew he had to act. Carson firmly believed that humans were dangerously working against nature with their heinous misuse of these pesticides and decided to take a path by combining his knowledge on government research and his deep love of nature to create literary works of art that would be read by millions of people. The difference Rachel Carson made in the field of ecology and environmental conservation with the publication of her most famous novel, Silent Spring, would be one of the most important achievements of the 20th century. Carson graduated knowing she wanted to be an author. His first novel, Under the Sea Wind, received positive reviews but was published a month before the attack on Pearl Harbor.3 The country went to war, and Carson's novel did not receive as much attention as he had hoped. “The world records… center of paper… Electronic information: Doyle, Jack. “Power in the Pen, Silent Spring: 1962,” PopHistoryDig.com, February 21, 2012. Available from http://www.pophistorydig.com/?tag=rachel-carson-senate-hearings Accessed November 8, 2013 Lear, Linda. “Rachel Carson and the Awakening of Environmental Consciousness.” National Humanities Center, June 2002. Available from http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nattrans/ntwilderness/essays/carson.htm Accessed November 6, 2013McKie, Robin. “Rachel Carson and the legacy of Silent Spring” The Guardian, May 2012. Available from http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/may/27/rachel-carson-silent-spring-anniversary Accessed 8 November 2013No Author. Indiana University class web “Rachel Carson and Silent Spring,” available at http://classwebs.spea.indiana.edu/bakerr/v600/rachel_carson_and_silent_spring.htm Accessed November 8 2013