As she lay dying of cancer at the age of 56 in 1964, other labels still swirled about her. Yet this intensely private person, whom her superiors at the Fish and Wildlife Service remembered as being so shy originally that she could hardly get out the words to discuss a new project, became the center of one of the most bitter public controversies in the post-war era. Nor was anyone in our history able to create among the public an "ecological conscience" as ably as Rachel Carson did. No one in our country's history believed more profoundly in the aim of conservation - as an attempt to understand and preserve the capacity of land, water and wildlife for self-renewal, in all their diversity and complexity. Bureau of Fisheries and later for the Fish and Wildlife Service, she gathered the background to write those distinguished books on the sea that were read by millions here and abroad.Ĭonservationist was still another. As a marine biologist who worked for the old U.S. Poet was one of them, for she wrote prose with a poet's passion. There were many other people all over the world who were eager to use praise words to describe her and her work. Rachel Carson did not have to pin any labels on herself. I'd wait until somebody else called me that.'" "A boy came to my home the other day," Frost recalled, "and he said to me, 'I'm a poet.' I said, 'That's a praise word. Robert Frost liked to make a point with an anecdote as well as with a poem.
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