This virtual exhibition presents the global reception and impact of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring as well as the book’s legacy in popular culture, music, literature, and the arts.

(Joni Seager; Times Higher Education; August 5, 2010)

Fifty years after the publication of the book that laid the foundations for the environmental movement, what have we learned from the biologist who saw the need for science to work with nature? (Robin McKie; The Guardian; May 26, 2012)

(Elizabeth Grossman; The Atlantic; June 25, 2012)

(Eliza Griswold; The New York Times; September 21, 2012)

(Nancy B. Jackson; Pttsburgh Post-Gazette; October 23, 2012)

(Nancy F. Koehn; The New York Times; October 27, 2012)

(Margaret Atwood; The Guardian; December 7, 2012)

(Stephen Kress; Huffington Post; May 24, 2013)

"Drawn from Carson’s own writings, letters and recent scholarship, this film illuminates both the public and private life of the woman who launched the modern environmental movement and revolutionized how we understand our relationship with the natural world." (Aired July 1, 2023)