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This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits.

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Rachel Carson
Age: 56 †
Born: 1907
Born: May 27
Died: 1964
Died: April 14
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Conservationist
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Marine Biologist
Non-Fiction Writer
Zoologist
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