RACHEL CARSON: A Crusading Environmentalist Carson about five, reading a story to her dog Candy. "I can remember no time, even in earliest childhood, when I didn't assume I was going to be a writer...also, I can remember no time when I wasn't interested in the out-of-doors and the whole world of nature." -- Carson's speech to the sorority for women journalists, Theta Sigma Pi, in 1954. (Read a reprint from LOST WOODS: THE DISCOVERED WRITING OF RACHEL CARSON, at the Fish & Wildlife Service site) (PDF)