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|date=September 2000
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The first thing you'll notice about Silent Spring is that it is so beautifully written. In you go expecting a lecture from a person intelligent and worthy but perhaps rather dull. You couldn't be more wrong. Silent Spring opens with a haunting picture of rural America being turned slowly by poison into a barren wasteland. It is only a few pages long but the alarm bells rung by her short parable are alarming indeed. As winter leaves the chemically stricken land what does the new season bring? In Carson's words: