1. Illustration in Linda Lear, Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature (New York: Henry Holt, 1997), after p. 366.
2. Rachel Carson, Silent Spring ( New York, Fawcett Crest, 1962 ), p. 16.
3. Ralph Lutts, “Chemical Fallout: Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, Radioactive Fallout, and the Environmental Movement”, Environmental Review,9 (1985), p. 212; Samuel P. Hays, Beauty, Health, and Permanence: Environmental Politics in the United States, 1955–1985 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), p. 28; Spencer R. Weart, Nuclear Fear: A History of Images (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988), p. 325; Lear, Rachel Carson,pp. 373–375 (cit. n. 2).
4. Hays, Beauty, Health, and Permanence,pp. 24, 28 (cit. n. 3).
5. Lear, Rachel Carson, pp. 397–427 (cit. n. 1). For an interesting analysis of Carson’s use of anti- Communist rhetoric in her critique of the pesticide industry, see Jeff Ellis, “Redefining the `Menace of Our Time’: Rachel Carson and Barry Commoner as Environmental Patriots in Cold War America”, paper presented at the Organization of American Historians annual meeting, San Francisco, 1997.