Britain’s Guardian newspaper in 2010 listed it among the “Fifty Books to Change the World.” In 2011, Time magazine put it on the All-TIME 100 Nonfiction Books list. Discover Magazine put Silent Spring on its “25 Greatest Science Books of All Time” in 2006. Random House’s Modern Library released a much-talked-about list of the 100 Best Nonfiction books of the twentieth century, on which Carson’s book was ranked #5. By the end of the twentieth century, it took its place on lists of the best books of the century or even of all time. Vice President Al Gore, “Introduction,” Silent Spring (1994 ed.), xiiiīy any measure, Silent Spring succeeded beyond anyone’s imagining. Carson has had as much or more effect on me than any of them, and perhaps than all of them together. Her picture hangs on my office wall among those of political leaders…. Her example inspired me to write Earth in the Balance…. Rachel Carson was one of the reasons why I became so conscious of the environment and so involved with environmental issues. It was one of the books we read at home at my mother’s insistence and then discussed around the dinner table…. For me, personally, Silent Spring had a profound impact.
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