Rachel Carson: Power of the Pen
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National Book Award (1952)

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"...But this notion that "science" is something...apart from everyday life, is one that I...challenge...If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is...because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry." 
Rachel Carson, National Book Award Acceptance Speech, 1952

Source: The Associated Press, 1952

AAUW Award (1956)

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"'Biology['s]...leaders are courageous enough to abandon preconceived ideas and to seek...truth...[Carson] considers it 'my special privilege...to interpret some of these discoveries for those who are not scientists. They have a meaning...for us all.'"
Article for the Washington Post and Times Herald, June 23rd 1956, quoting Rachel Carson's acceptance speech
Source: AAUW Journal, 1956

John Burroughs Medal (1952)

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"...I am convinced that we have been far too ready to assume that... [the public] are indifferent to the world... If they are indifferent it is only because they have not been properly introduced to it- and perhaps that is...our fault." 

Rachel Carson, April 1952, Acceptance Speech for the John Burroughs Medal


Source: John Burroughs Memorial Association
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