Rachel Carson Quotes:
Ocupation: Marine biologist
Life: May 27, 1907 - April 14, 1964
Birthday: May 27
Death: April 14
Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our major concern is no longer with the disease organisms that once were omnipresent; sanitation, better living conditions, and new drugs have given us a high degree of control over infectious disease. Today we are concerned with a different kind of hazard that lurks in our environment-a hazard we ourselves have introduced into our world as our modern way of life has evolved.
source: Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.207, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
topic: Our World, Yesterday, Drug, Infectious Diseases, Living Conditions, Sanitation, Scourge
