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It is one of the ironies of our time that, while concentrating on the defense of our country against enemies from without, we should be so heedless of those who would destroy it from within.
-- Rachel Carson (1953)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RachelCarson #Conservation #Nature
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah
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A fallen leaf doesn't return to the tree, yet nothing about its life has stopped belonging.
Further reading:
https://medium.com/collaborative-action-network/is-that-the-best-you-can-do-7f4781486e96#LifeboatAcademy #StayHuman #RachelCarson #LivingSystems #Reckoning
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Farmhouse arrest – an illustration from Busy Bee and the Silent Spring
In Busy Bee and the Silent Spring all the creatures of Old Oak Meadow are feeling unwell. Something must be making them sick. They discover that the problem is coming from a farm next door to the meadow.
In this final illustration the bad farmer from the farm adjoining Old Oak Meadow has been arrested. This story is written for the 8-12 year old reader but a number of adults have also enjoyed reading it.
Some teachers thought that there is enough in the story to form the basis for a whole curriculum of outdoor and nature learning and all wrapped up in a story, children will love. The thing they liked best is the multitude of topics covered, all which are such important starting points for vital conversations with young people. The book has also been well received with the Scottish Beekeepers Association putting a copy of it along with the first book, Busy Bee and the Endangered Meadow, in their Edinburgh library.
The story is available as an ebook or in printed form globally on different Amazon websites and here are a couple of links https://www.amazon.co.uk/Busy-Silent-Spring-Paul-No%C3%ABl/dp/B088JFN1ZV/ and https://www.amazon.com/Busy-Silent-Spring-Paul-No%C3%ABl/dp/B088JFN1ZV/.
There are also T-shirts and long sleeve T-shirts available for children of the wonderful cover artwork by Alice Wright with or without the book title, https://scientistandphilosopher.com/collection/kids/.
Busy Bee and the Silent Spring with book title V1B-CBusy Bee and the Silent Spring with book title long sleeve T-shirtSilent Spring cover no logo no titles V1Our links
See more of Alice Wrights’ wonderful art, https://www.hireanillustrator.com/i/portfolio/alice-wright/ or Instagram @alicewrightillustration or Facebook @alicewrightillustrates.
Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton clothes and bags, https://scientistandphilosopher.com/.
My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.
Our Etsy shop, https://junagarhmedia.etsy.com.
This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.
We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.
Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.
On Pinterest, https://www.pinterest.co.uk/paulpaddington2017/
#BusyBeeAndTheSilentSpring #Neonicotinoids #Neonics #Pesticides #RachelCarson #SilentSpring -
#News #Environment #RachelCarson #History #Video
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON 6/16/26
250 WE ARE AMERICANS 1 minute video
RACHEL CARSON’S SILENT SPRING
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Looking forward to reading about Cooperation in Nature https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/15/togetherness-by-rowan-hooper-review-a-stunning-portrait-of-cooperation-in-nature
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endosymbiont
#booksOfMastodon #Coral #CharlesDarwin #Endosymbiosis #Evolution #Kropotkin #LynnMargulis
#MutualAid #RachelCarson
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Silent Spring
Vor ein paar Tagen bin ich von einer Reise nach Bosnien-Herzegowina und Kroatien zurückgekommen. Ich verbinde viele Erinnerungen an diese Länder. Mein Vater ist Banatdeutscher, und in meiner Kindheit waren wir jeden Sommer da. Mein Vater liebte den Balkan, konnte dort serbo-kroatisch (sagt man heute nicht mehr) sprechen.
In 10 Tagen habe ich dort eine einzige Eidechse gesehen. Früher huschten sie bei Schritt und Tritt über die Steine, überall raschelte es. Wenn man sich hinsetzen wollte, musste man immer sehr aufpassen, weil es von Ameisen wimmelte. Unter den Pinien und Zypressen schrillten die Zikaden manchmal ohrenbetäubend.
Am letzten Tag der Reise saß ich für einen Nachmittag im Schatten der Pinien auf der Insel Lokrum, vor Dubrovnik. Keine Eidechse, keine Ameisen, keine Zikade. Nur ein einsamer Käfer und die Schreie der Inselpfauen.
Die Stille war bedrückend. Geräusche sind so eng mit Orten und Erinnerungen verbunden ... diesmal war es fast wie in einem Stummfilm..
Meine kurze Recherche hat den Einbruch der Tierpopulationen an der Adria leider bestätigt.
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@minouette Loved the #biodiversity in the portrait, boosted that & bookmarked the bio. Today returning, to read & reflect... What an inspiring life, thank you for highlighting!
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Had no idea that at the occasion of the publication of Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" in 1962, Monsanto published a speculative account of the devastation that a year without pesticides would bring to the USA.
#RachelCarson #SilentSpring #SystemsThatMatter
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Lola Callejón nos cuenta sobre uno de los libros más importantes de Rachel Carson: https://www.15-15-15.org/webzine/2026/05/10/comentario-en-torno-a-bajo-el-viento-oceanico-de-rachel-carson/ "Bajo el viento oceánico"
La 🖌️ es de Augusto Metztli.
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It is one of the ironies of our time that, while concentrating on the defense of our country against enemies from without, we should be so heedless of those who would destroy it from within.
-- Rachel Carson (1953)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RachelCarson #Conservation #Nature
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah
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A minha merca po-lo San Jordi, nom perdamos o poder de maravilhar-se
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Attention learns to follow urgency — scanning, trying to stay ahead of the moment. Beneath the story of human failure in the climate crisis is another layer, maybe an opportunity: to go from attention narrowed until it loses contact with what's here, to pausing to see what's actually there. When urgency breaks, relationship shifts.
This week's reflection @ https://emotus.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-the-bottleneck
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And now a VERY short documentary about marine biologist, environmentalist and writer Rachel Carson (https://youtu.be/7SDULNRX3Ok?si=NekQBmJhl65EPqYP) and her eternal influence on conservation and environmentalism. You can read Rachel Carson’s essential work of environmental writing “Silent Spring” for free here (https://archive.org/details/fp_Silent_Spring-Rachel_Carson-1962)
#LaEsoterica #EarthDay #RachelCarson #nature -
Today's quote from a book:
"...[M]an is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself."
~~from Silent Spring by Rachel Carson#book #reading #books #bookstodon #climate #climatechange #rachelcarson
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The Monarchs, Music, and the Meaning of Life: The Most Touching Deathbed Love Letter Ever Written
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u-lo as fadas?
O mundo dun pequeno é fresco, novo, fermoso, está cheo
de sorpresa e entusiasmo. É unha desgraza que, na maioría de
nós, esa visión lúcida, ese instinto natural que temos polo que
é fermoso e impresionante, se debilite ou mesmo se perda antes
de chegarmos á idade adulta. Se tivese cuña coa fada que supostamente está encargada de abeizoar todas as crianzas, pediríalle
que escollese de agasallo para cada unha delas un sentido do
abraio tan indestrutible que lles durase toda a vida, como un
antídoto infalible contra o aborrecemento e o desencanto que
han vir cos anos, contra a preocupación estéril por cousas que
son artificiais, contra a alienación das orixes da nosa fortaleza. -
Working on my next print for the #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt subtraction- a scientist who brought the world’s attention to what was missing where there had been indiscriminate pesticide use, and DDT in particular. Award-winning science writer and marine biologist Rachel Carson (1907-1964) wasn’t the first to try to sound the alarm about unintended consequences, harm to wildlife, 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #wip #portrait #scientist #RachelCarson #ecology #marineBiology #histsci #womenInSTEM #birds
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Sometimes the world only feels motionless because we’ve stopped noticing it.
Rachel Carson reminds us to look again — to see a familiar place as if we’re seeing it for the first time.
That small shift in perspective can reveal the subtle movement already carrying us forward.#LookAgain #FreshEyes #RachelCarson #EverydayBeauty #AttentionIsTransformative #SeeingWhatsMoving
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September 27, 1962
Rachel Carson's book indicting the pesticide industry, Silent Spring, was published.
The scientist (17 years with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) and writer demonstrated the connection between the excessive and ubiquitous use of DDT and its long-term effect on plants and animals.
The impact of her book proved seminal to a new ecological awareness. But even 30 years later, Carson was denounced for “preservationist hysteria” and “bad science.” But she had said when the book was published: "We do not ask that all chemicals be abandoned. We ask moderation. We ask the use of other methods less harmful to our environment."
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At its 63rd birthday Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" is going as strong as ever. Here a little celebration. #RachelCarson #SilentSpring #ecology #toxicology #scienceWriting https://manywordsandnumbers.org/2025/09/12/in-praise-of-rachel-carsons-silent-spring/
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#ScarboroughLandTrust acquires 130 acres to expand #conservation area
The 130-acre addition to #SilverBrookPreserve expands contiguous conserved lands.
Dana Richie, July 30, 2025
"The Scarborough Land Trust is expanding its green footprint in Western Scarborough with the addition of a 130-acre parcel to the Silver Brook Preserve at 65 Hanson Road.
"This is a sizable boost to the preserve that was previously made up of a 19-acre parcel purchased in 2001 and an 18-acre parcel purchased in 2024. And it expands the contiguous block of conserved land in the area to 943 acres, 600 of which are within the SLT’s stewardship.
" 'It really rounds out 25 years of conservation efforts,' said Christine Labaree, president of the land trust’s board of directors.
"The Silver Brook Preserve is home to a variety of wildlife including wild brook trout, spotted turtles, deer, bobcats, bats and maybe even a black bear or two.
And the land directly abuts #BroadturnFarm, a 434-acre parcel under the SLT’s stewardship complete with a working farm and wooded trails — the spot where Andrew Mackie, executive director of the land trust, and Labaree met on a hot and sticky afternoon."While walking along the #MapleSugarTrail by the edge of an open field full of tall grasses speckled with trees, Mackie said that the Silver Brook Preserve is across the tree line in the distance. Plunging deeper in the woods, past a still brook surrounded by a canopy of green, he pointed to a tree that bore a sign for the Stonewall Loop, a 1-mile trail in the Western corner of the property.
"Mackie explained that the land trust plans to extend that loop into the Silver Lake Preserve property, adding about 2 miles of trails and parking onto the new parcel within the next two years.
"Right now, the Silver Brook Preserve is open to the public for activities like hiking, skiing, snowshoeing, wildlife observation, hunting and fishing, and Mackie said that the land trust is still figuring out a lot of the policies for the preserve, like whether dogs will be required to be leashed.
"Western Scarborough isn’t the only area in town where the land trust is working to 'seed and grow' its conserved areas. There are 500 acres of contiguous conserved land in Pleasant Hill, made up of the 187-acre #PleasantHillPreserve and 300-acre #RachelCarsonNationalWildlifeRefuge. And #WarrenWoods, which was originally 162 acres in 2012, is now 313 acres, with plans in the works to connect trails to The Downs.
" 'The goal is that every neighborhood in Scarborough has opportunities to have access to open land,' Labaree said. The land trust is working with the town to achieve its goal of '30 by 30' — to preserve 30% of its land by 2030. According to Labaree, the town is currently at 23%.
"And Mackie said that these larger land parcels are more attractive in the long term because they are more ecologically sustainable, provide varying habitats for #wildlife and are easier to maintain."
Archived version:
https://archive.md/qaDNC#SolarPunkSunday #WildlifeCorridor #WaterIsLife #SaveTheMarshes #SaveTheFarms #Maine #SouthernMaine #LandTrust #BlueCarbon #SaveTheWetlands #SaltMarshes #ScarboroughMarsh #WebOfLife #Wetlands #SaveTheForests
#PreserveNature #LandConservation #LandForMainesFuture #SpendTimeInNature #RachelCarson -
Dismantling of EPA’s Scientific Research Arm Fulfills Key Chemical Industry Goal
#trump #fascism #antiscience #chemicalindustry #toxics #environmentalracism #environmentaljustice #rachelcarson #climatejustice #ScienceforthePeople
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I’ve been consuming too much news and not learning enough. Now that I visited the library, I have reading to do. My new library still uses date due stamps! The This is Love podcast inspired one pick. #library #memoir #nonfiction #environment #kareemabduljabbar #rachelcarson #thisislove
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https://www.zdf.de/play/dokus/zdf-info-100/der-bio-boom-100-jahre-oekologische-landwirtschaft-102
"Um 1924 entsteht die Biolandwirtschaft als Antwort auf den Einsatz von Chemie, als eine Rückbesinnung auf alte Anbautechniken. Die Bedeutung der Tiere, der Böden, der Düngung und des Umgangs mit der #Natur wird über ein Jahrhundert hinweg auf darauf spezialisierten Biohöfen beibehalten. Ob beim Biobauern im direkten Verkauf oder in Biosupermärkten: Kundinnen und Kunden sind Klimaschutz, Tierwohl und gesunde #Ernährung beim Einkauf wichtig."
#pestizide #ddt #glyphosat #silentSpring #RachelCarson #organic #bio #landwirtschaft #egge #essen #humus #regenerativeLandwirtschaft
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Today, @jhembrow and I took part in the Extinction Rebellion protest against pesticide use, especially the extra high level of usage for growing flowers.
Why do we still have to do this, 63 years after "Silent Spring" was published ?
#xr #bollenteelt #extinctionrebellion #drenthe #assen #silentspring #rachelcarson @xrdrenthe -
'Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.'
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September 27, 1962
Rachel Carson's book indicting the pesticide industry, Silent Spring, was published.
The scientist (17 years with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) and writer demonstrated the connection between the excessive and ubiquitous use of DDT and its long-term effect on plants and animals.1/2
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What are ‘forever chemicals’
https://theconversation.com/what-exactly-are-forever-chemicals-and-can-we-move-beyond-them-237395
The warning of #RachelCarson, the late American marine biologist and writer, in #SilentSpring still remains powerful 60 years later: the chemicals we use in attempts to control nature are pushing its fragile limits beyond what it can handle.
Beyond PFAS
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A Short History Of The #WholeEarthCatalog
Dan
July 5, 2020"Who remembers the Whole Earth Catalog? Anyone?
"For some, the Whole Earth Catalog was the bible for all things green and #ecofriendly, #offgrid, #BackToNature, and #enviromentally conscious and #sustainable.
"If you think environmentalism is a new phenomenon you’d be wrong.
"The seeds of the movement were planted with the writings of #JohnMuir in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. But perhaps, even more so by the publication in 1854 of #HenryDavidThoreau’s influential masterpiece #Walden.
"The modern environmental movement can arguably be traced back to the publication of #RachelCarson’s classic #SilentSpring in 1962.
"One of the major rallying points for the eco-movement was concern for the #pollution of the Great Lakes.
[...]
"As John Markoff, a technology writer for the New York Times, told the Guardian, the Whole Earth Catalog was 'the internet before the internet. It was the book of the future. It was a web in newsprint.'"
Read more:
https://wholepeople.com/whole-earth-catalog/#WholeEarthCatalog #Counterculture #HippieGeek #StewartBrand #Permaculture #PreInternetResourceGuide #SolarPunkSunday
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#SilentSpring - #RachelCarson - 1962
Available through the #InternetArchive!
"Silent Spring by Rachel Carson is an expertly written #environmental science book published in 1962. It focuses on the documentation of detrimental effects that the haphazard use of #pesticides has on the #environment. In the book, she is vocal about her criticism of #ChemicalIndustry which she blames for the rampant #disinformation that is aimed at ensuring that public official accepts their claims unquestioningly (Carson and Lear). Carson had earlier focused all her attention on conservation efforts and in particular in environmental problems caused pesticides.The result of her new found passion culminated in the writing of Silent Spring (1962) that brought out her environmental concerns with the aim of sharing them with the American public."
https://archive.org/details/fp_Silent_Spring-Rachel_Carson-1962
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[Thread] This was my day today... A hike in a nearby forest and meadow, recording bird songs, and taking photos. Observations? Plenty for the bees to eat, but no bumblebees and barely any other bees. A couple of carpenter bees, a few small bees, but that was about all. I did capture some cool bird songs and used Merlin to identify them. So, mixed feelings about my hike. But it was still good to spend some time in nature -- even if my observations confirmed my misgivings about the local bee population.
#Nature #NatureHike #Maine #NatureObservations #CitizenScientist #RachelCarson
