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Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.
Rachel Carson
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Rachel Carson
Age: 56 †
Born: 1907
Born: May 27
Died: 1964
Died: April 14
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Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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