Sarah Wasserman’s Reviews > Silent Spring & Other Writings on the Environment > Status Update

I’m coming to the conclusion that reading silent spring without reading any of Carson’s previous work takes away some of the book’s power. Because compared to her sea trilogy, this is SO different. Imagine if Robin Wall Kimmerer published a scathing indictment of the agriculture industry and didn’t pull any punches

now that I’ve read so much of her other work, this book is such a striking difference in tone. you can feel the urgency, and you can hear her deep love for the natural world — and her pain and fury at its destruction.

"For here the natural landscape is eloquent of the interplay of forces that have created it. It is spread before us like the pages of an open book in which we can read why the land is what it is, and why we should preserve its integrity. But the pages lie unread."