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I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.

Rachel Carson

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Rachel Carson
Age: 56 †
Born: 1907
Born: May 27
Died: 1964
Died: April 14
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Conservationist
Environmentalist
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Marine Biologist
Non-Fiction Writer
Zoologist
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Rachel Louise Carson
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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