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"The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of
the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed
that nature exists for the convenience of man."
- Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962), p. 297.

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Photo on left : Portrait of Rachel Carson by Minnette D. Bickel, 1987