RACHEL CARSON: A Crusading Environmentalist Rachel Carson's notebook "The call of the trail on that dewy May morning was too strong to withstand. The sun was barely an hour high when Pal and I set off for a day of our favorite sport with a lunch-box, a canteen, a note-book, and a camera. Your experienced woodsman will say that we were going birds’ –nesting – in the most approved fashion." -- Rachel Carson, "My Favorite Recreation" from ST. NICHOLAS MAGAZINE, vol. 49 (July 1922) (Carson was published several times as a child in ST NICHOLAS magazine.)