RACHEL CARSON: A Crusading Environmentalist "There's Poison All Around Us Now, " By Lorus and Margery Milne, THE NEW YORK TIMES, September 23, 1962 "SILENT SPRING is similar in only one regard to Miss Carson’s earlier books...in it she deals once more, in an accurate, yet popularly written narrative, with the relation of life to environment. Her book is a cry to the reading public to help curb private and public programs which by use of poisons will end by destroying life on earth...Know the facts and do something about the situation, she urges. To make sure that the facts are known, she recounts them and documents them with 55 pages of references. She intends to shock and hopes for action."