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	metaphorik.de 04/2003 - Nerlich, Tracking the fate of the metaphor silent spring
		Silent Spring has thus permeated public consciousness and the image of a silent spring has been used repeatedly as a rhetorical resource and a mine for metaphors and images in debates about the impact of science on society and on the environment.
		silent spring evoked death, emptiness and the general despair felt by many involved in the slaughter or affected by the slaughter, a despair vividly expressed in many poems written by adults and children during the FMD crisis, poems which are permeated by the topic of ‘silence’.
		silent spring seem to have a semantic dynamics that is based on the one hand on their intrinsic or textual semantic potential and on the other on their extrinsic or contextual use in various social, political, cultural and economic circumstances over time.
	www.metaphorik.de /04/nerlich.htm (7939 words)

	Silent Spring - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Silent Spring was written by Rachel Carson and published in September, 1962.
		However, some critics asserted that she was calling for the elimination of all pesticides, despite the fact that Silent Spring was positively reviewed by many outside of the academic field such as agricultural science and chemical science, and it became a runaway best seller both in the USA and overseas.
		Even before Silent Spring was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, there was strong opposition to it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Silent_Spring (1138 words)

	Hort 306 - READING 31-2
		Thus, when Silent Spring appeared, she was not only a well-known "scientist cum author," but she had the necessary financial foundation and lack of constraints imposed by government or university ties to write with an extraordinary sense of freedom.
		Silent Spring was a radical departure from her previous writings on the wonders inherent in the sea.
		Silent Spring was the impetus for the founding in 1967 of the Environmental Defense Fund, which later led the baffle to ban DDT.
	www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/history/lecture31/r_31-3.html (3790 words)

	Silent Spring - Rachel Carson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Silent Spring, one of the first calls for public awareness and environmental action and a seminal work of the 1960s, examines the way dangerous chemicals have been used without sufficient research or regard for their potential to harm wildlife, water, soil, and humans, creating a sinister chain of poisoning and death.
		Silent Spring is meticulously researched and accessible to the lay reader; its message is as clear as it is devastating: humans have willfully disturbed the whole web of life, the "intimate and essential relations" between the earth and all its passengers, animate and inanimate.
		When Carson died barely eighteen months later in the spring of 1964, at the age of fifty-six, she had set in motion a course of events that would result in a ban on the domestic production of DDT and the creation of a grass-roots movement demanding protection of the environment through state and federal regulation.
	www.bookfinder.us /review1/0618249060.html (3927 words)

	Silent Spring 2
		We have known since Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring' in 1962 that pesticides accumulate in the food chain and cause cancer, and that we need to keep residue levels in our food low.
		Silent Spring warned us of health and environmental impacts, and brought pesticide use under public scrutiny for the first time in the early 1960s.
		Since Silent Spring we have also known that pesticides that take a long time to break down in the environment accumulate in organisms as they move up the food chain.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Environment/Silent_Spring2.html (2828 words)

	silent definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
		In passionate prose it presented to a popular audience evidence that the indiscriminate use of pesticides like DDT was killing wildlife.
		silent not speaking or communicating at a specific time, especially through choice, or not inclined to speak much;
		He's a rather silent type where women are concerned.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?search=silent (369 words)

	Rachel Carson
		Silent Spring came as a cry in the wilderness, a deeply felt, thoroughly researched, and brilliantly written argument that changed the course of history.
		Silent Spring planted the seeds of a new activism that has grown into one of the great popular forces of all time.
		Silent Spring was conceived when she received a letter from a woman named Olga Owens Huckins in Duxbury, Massachusetts, telling her that DDT was killing birds.
	clinton2.nara.gov /WH/EOP/OVP/24hours/carson.html (3460 words)

	Rachel Carson and Silent Spring
		It was not too long after Silent Spring was in print that the public's awareness of the dangers associated with pesticide use impelled them to began taking steps to limit the use of these chemicals in their communities.
		In fact, many argue that Silent Spring was instrumental in launching the American and global environmental movements as well as the notion that we possess a fundamental right to a clean environment.
		Silent Spring helped to expose the hazards of chemical pesticide use and draw public attention to environmental issues that had never really been addressed before.
	classwebs.spea.indiana.edu /bakerr/v600/rachel_carson_and_silent_spring.htm (2666 words)

	NRDC: The Story of Silent Spring
		Anticipating the reaction of the chemical industry, she had compiled Silent Spring as one would a lawyer's brief, with no fewer than 55 pages of notes and a list of experts who had read and approved the manuscript.
		The most important legacy of Silent Spring, though, was a new public awareness that nature was vulnerable to human intervention.
		Appearing on a CBS documentary about Silent Spring shortly before her death from breast cancer in 1964, she remarked, "Man's attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature.
	www.nrdc.org /health/pesticides/hcarson.asp (1089 words)

	Re-reading Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In 1962, The New Yorker magazine serialized substantial portions of the book manuscript Silent Spring, which critically examined the use of pesticides in controlling insects and the effects of these chemicals on the broad spectrum of life, including wildlife and human health.
		The value of reading or re-reading Silent Spring today resides in Rall's observation; it remains among the most concise and best-written overviews on the subject of pesticides, eerily fresh after nearly a third of a century, with many of the topics still emerging as issues in science, biology, ecology, and public health.
		Silent Spring, both as a work of literature and a call for social and scientific scrutiny of the use of pesticides, shows every evidence of enduring into the millennium because Carson presented a premise on the relationship between humans, the use of chemicals, and the environment that has been borne out by science.
	www.greennature.com /article1329.html (1944 words)

	Silent Spring; ISBN-10: 0618249060 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		When Carson died barely eighteen months later in the spring of 1964, at the age of fifty-six, she had set in motion a course of events that would result in a ban on the domestic production of DDT and the creation of a grass-roots movement demanding protection of the environment through state and federal regulation.
		It is hard to remember the cultural climate that greeted Silent Spring and to understand the fury that was launched against its quietly determined author.
		After Silent Spring caught the attention of President John F. Kennedy, federal and state investigations were launched into the validity of Carson’s claims.
	www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com /catalog/titledetail.cfm?textType=excerpt&titleNumber=688315&printer=y (2963 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Silent Spring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Biotic factors are factors produced by living organisms that affect the ability of other living organisms to survive in an environment.
		Silent Spring is credited with the ultimate banning of the pesticide DDT in the United States.
		Silent Spring was positively reviewed by many outside of the agricultural and chemical fields, and it became a runaway best seller both in the USA and overseas.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Silent-Spring (2154 words)

	Silent Spring: An Introduction by Al Gore
		Writing about Silent Spring is a humbling experience for an elected official, because Rachel Carson's landmark book offers undeniable proof that the power of an idea can be far greater than the power of politicians.
		Also, Silent Spring was published in the early years of a decade that was anything but silent, a decade when Americans were perhaps far readier than they had been to hear and heed the book's message.
		In Silent Spring, Carson wrote of the "truly extraordinary array of alternatives to the chemical control of insects/" The array is wider today, despite the indifference of too many public officials and the resistance of manufacturers.
	www.uneco.org /ssalgoreintro.html (3322 words)

	A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries: "Silent Spring" is published
		Rachel Carson received a letter from a friend in Massachusetts in the summer of 1957.
		The company did not sue, and in fact was found later to be one of the worst offenders in using and producing toxic chemicals.
		Rachel Carson introduced to the general imagination the idea of ecology." Her book is often cited as the kick-off of the modern environmental movement.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dt62si.html (519 words)

	Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		MAIN THEME: The main theme of Silent Spring is the destruction of the delicate balance of nature by the wholesale use of insecticides.
		The mood of Silent Spring is one of urgency.
		The elms were sprayed during one spring and the following spring, robins returned to the campus and the city on their migratory path.
	www.addresources.com /Books.htm (10094 words)

	Silent Spring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Silent Spring Rachel Carson warned us about has come home to roost.
		In the preceding versions of the report, an ultimatum for governments continuing their Silent Spring was to convene a new democratically elected Convention or...
		Silent Spring was a book written by Rachel Carson and published in 1962, about the detrimental effect pesticides were having on the environment, and especially on birds.
	www.wikiverse.org /silent-spring (243 words)

	Our Own Silent Spring by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
		A book called Silent Spring by Rachel Carson was published in 1962, and eventually it created a fantastic backlash against progress.
		The spring was silent supposedly because of the lack of birds, killed off by DDT.
		The extent to which the green movement is wrapped up in this history is obvious from the fact that we are living through a genuine silent spring, with the press ignoring the causes of malaria.
	www.lewrockwell.com /rockwell/silent-spring.html (803 words)

	EO Library: Rachel Carson Page 2
		Silent Spring challenged the practices and views of the agricultural industry and government.
		She asserted that the indiscriminant use of DDT was poisoning not just "target" species but the environment itself, and called for an end to the misuse of this and other powerful toxins.
		In Silent Spring, Carson succeeded in building a strong scientific case for her thesis while underscoring her belief in the "interconnectedness of life" found in her three previous books about the sea.
	earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Library/Giants/Carson/Carson2.html (492 words)

	League of Silent Flight
		Those who pause to refresh themselves at the spring always return to it, or, having found it never depart.
		The League of Silent Flight was formed to accommodate pilots of like mind and interest, to codify and give voice to the soaring spirit; to promote a framework within which each soaring pilot may share an easy camaraderie with another while sharpening sharpening skills in a world-wide-accepted discipline of growth and achievement.
		Members of the League, or LSF, as it is known "have been there", have tasted silent fight and the sense of belonging.
	www.silentflight.org (719 words)

	There's Poison All Around Us Now
		“Silent Spring” is similar in only one regard to Miss Carson’s earlier books (“Under the Sea Wind,” “The Sea Around Us,” “The Edge of the Sea”): in it she deals once more, in an accurate, yet popularly written narrative, with the relation of life to environment.
		“Silent Spring” offers warnings in this direction too: trivial amounts of one poison often make trivial amounts of another suddenly disastrous; and poisons stored in the body may be tolerated during health, but take effect dramatically as soon as any sickness decreases the body’s resistance.
		It is high time for people to know about these rapid changes in their environment, and to take an effective part in the battle that may shape the future of all life on earth.
	www.nytimes.com /glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/10/05/reviews/carson-spring.html&OQ=_rQ3D3Q26orefQ3DsloginQ26orefQ3Dslogin&OP=4b24a8ddQ2Fr(yQ5BrPtQ5CZQ7CttDrQ5BttiZr0RrvQ2BrQ2BQ3ArQ7CyfJy(ZrQ5CYQ7CZtVLZQ7DQ7CJVQ7B.)DXh (1572 words)

	about us
		Silent Spring Institute researchers work to identify the links between environmental pollutants and women's health, especially breast cancer.
		Silent Spring Institute has created a multidisciplinary research team to identify these chemicals and develop new methods to assess exposure.
		Silent Spring Institute's research team includes a multidisciplinary staff of scientists with expertise in biology, chemistry, epidemiology, geographic databases, geology, health communications, information science, risk assessment, and toxicology, and co-investigators at Boston University School of Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Tufts University Medical School, and Applied Geographics.
	www.silentspring.org /newweb/about/faqs_2research.html (709 words)

	SILENT SPRING - Rachel Carson - Penguin UK
		The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields.
		Then foxes barked in the hills and deer silently across the fields, half hidden in the mists of the autumn mornings.
		The countryside was, in fact, famous for the abundance and variety of its bird life, and when the flood of migrants was pouring through in spring and autumn people travelled from great distances to observe them.
	www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_9780141184944,00.html?sym=EXC (767 words)

	'Silent Spring' is Now Noisy Summer Pesticides Industry Up In Arms Over a New Book Rachel Carson Stirs Conflict -- ...
		Rachel Carson, the biologist and writer on nature and science, whose book “Silent Spring” touched off a major controversy on the effects of pesticides, died yesterday in her home in Silver Spring, Md. She was 56 years old.
		With the publication of “Silent Spring” in 1962, Rachel Louise Carson, the essence of gentle scholarship, set off a nationally publicized struggle between the proponents and opponents of the widespread use of poisonous chemicals to kill insects.
		“Silent Spring,” four-and-a-half years in preparation and published in September of 1962, hit the affluent chemical industry and the general public with the devastating effect of a Biblical plague of locusts.
	www.mindfully.org /Pesticide/Rachel-Carson-Silent-Spring.htm (3429 words)

	Silent Spring II
		DDT was banned and Silent Spring did for the Environmentalists what Upton Sinclair's The Jungle did for stockyard inspections half a century before.
		She wrote about how the thin eggshells of various birds and other effects in the wild of a buildup of the insecticide would eventually lead to the deaths of everything beautiful in the world.
		Next spring may be Silent after all, just as the late Ms.
	www.themediadesk.com /files7/silentspring2.htm (619 words)

	Silent Spring Summary
		Rachel Carson is known primarily as the author of Silent Spring, a 1962 book that introduced readers to the hazards of pesticide abuse, shifting the focus of environmental writing by addressing dangers posed to the natural world by human technology.
		Rachel Carson is best remembered for her groundbreaking book Silent Spring, which first brought to public attention the environmental damage caused by chemical fertilizers and such pesticides as DDT and spurred legislative efforts to clean the environmen...
		Silent Spring was written by Rachel Carson and published in September, 1962.
	www.bookrags.com /Silent_Spring (316 words)

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