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RACHEL CARSON: A Crusading Environmentalist 'Silent Spring' is Now Noisy Summer: Pesticides Industry Up In Arms Over a New Book," John M. Lee, THE NEW YORK TIMES, July 22, 1962 "The $300,000,000 pesticides industry has been highly irritated by a quiet woman author whose previous works on science have been praised for the beauty and precision of the writing."
Carson's foes were already lined-up for a fight before SILENT SPRING was published. She was called "a fanatic defender of the cult of the balance of nature," and a chemical industry spokesman warned: "If man were to follow the teachings of Miss Carson, we would return to the Dark Ages, and the insects and diseases and vermin would once again inherit the earth."
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