Google Doodle …. Rachel Louise Carlson!!

~~May 27, 2014~~ 

Google Doodles Rachel Louise Carson’s 107th Birthday

Google’s latest doodle marks the 107th birth anniversary of American marine biologist, author and conservationist, Rachel Louise Carson.

Born in 1907, Carson’s work was mainly focused in the fields of marine biology, ecology, pesticides and nature writing. Rachel Louise Carson was also credited with bringing global attention to the problems associated with the conservation of the environment.

Rachel Louise Carson was born in Springdale, Pennsylvania and studied at the Chatham University and, later, the John Hopkins University. Her research into the harmful effects of pesticides on marine life came after studying the synthetic pesticides developed during the Second World War.

The doodle shows Rachel Louise Carson, standing amidst a vast expanse of marine and plant life and birds with a notebook, a backpack and a pair of binoculars.

Google is written in the middle in a calligraphic font.

Carson’s first book, The Sea Around Us, released in 1951 and was a bestseller. It also won her the US National Book Award. Her three books, The Sea Around Us (1951), The Edge of the Sea (1955) and Silent Spring (1962) were described as the Sea Trilogy.

Silent Spring (1962) was a landmark as it led to the reversal of the policy on the use of pesticides.

Rachel Louise Carson’s efforts were concentrated towards the direct ban of DDT. While she didn’t live to see that, in the year 1972 the Environmental Defense Fund and other allied groups succeeded in securing a phase out of the pesticide. It also led to the formation of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act of 1962 in the US.

Rachel Louise Carson passed away in 1964, after having been weakened with her treatment for breast cancer she encountered a respiratory infection and eventually suffered a fatal heart attack on April 14, 1964.

Rachel Louise Carson was awarded the Presidential Medal of freedom posthumously by President Jimmy Carter.

~~QUOTES~~

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.” 
~Rachel Carson~

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.” 
~Rachel Carson, Silent Spring~

“But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.” 
~Rachel Carson~

“It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.” 
~Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us~

“To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.” 
~Rachel Carson~

~~SOURCES~~ 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson

“Silent Spring” …. Rachel Carson!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2014/05/27/rachel-louise-carson-google-lets-fly-a-doodle-true-to-environmental-writers-nature/

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/553716/20140527/google-doodle-rachel-louise-carson-green-movement.htm#.U4TISfldXVo

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/15332.Rachel_Carson

~~Rachel Louise Carson’s 107th Birthday Google Doodle 2014~~

~~Published on May 26, 2014~~

Rachel Louise Carson’s 107th Birthday Google Doodle 2014.

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