Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.

Rachel Carson

Silent Spring

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Topic

Environmental destruction

Author

Rachel Carson

Source

Silent Spring

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

Occupation

Environmentalist Activist Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Houghton Mifflin, 1962, ch. 8.

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There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

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Peter Drucker
Language
English
Time
1963 1960s 20th century
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Citation

Drucker, Peter. "Managing for Business Effectiveness." Harvard Business Review, 1963.