![]() ![]() In Under the Sea-Wind, Carson draws the reader into the lives of sea creatures like Scomber, the mackerel, and Anguilla, the eel. ![]() ![]() A warning to avoid going in the water at Town Creek in Beaufort, North Carolina. It is where Rachel Carson lay on the beach, inspired by its birds, its beauty and the bounty of the ocean it is where she began what became her first and finest book, Under the Sea-Wind (1941). I read the item in the North Carolina Coastal Review carefully, again. “If the Bill of Rights contains no guarantee that a citizen shall be secure against lethal poisons distributed either by private individuals or by public officials, it is surely only because our forefathers, despite their considerable wisdom and foresight, could conceive of no such problem.” And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history… It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.” “The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. Rachel Carson and the Ocean CONNECTIONS The Pulse and Politics of the Environment, Peace, and Justiceīob Musil, President, Rachel Carson Council ![]()
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