Read With KQED the Book That Changed How We See Nature ^82.2%

KQED - By Danielle Venton - 3/19/2026, 2:00 PM

“There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings.” In this, the opening line of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the author begins to paint a bleak, but plausible, picture: a community where fish once thrived in the creeks and rivers, insects buzzed in fields, birds filled the... more