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"Chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon"--
This was not quite as good IMO as Brinkley's histories/biographies of the two President Roosevelts' environmental legacies because, lacking a central figure, the focus is more diffuse. Nonetheless, it was another enjoyable and well-researched piece by this author. This book had the added treat for me of surfacing information about events and persons from my early childhood about which I remembered hearing on the evening news. ( )
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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. - Rachel Carson, accepting the John Burroughs medal (1952)
When will people fully understand and accept the obligation to the future - when will they behave as custodians and not owners of the earth? - Rachel Carson to Stewart Udall, November 12, 1963
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Dedicated to my wife, Anne Brinkley . . . Everlasting Gratitude and the Walden Woods Project
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(Preface) As I sit at my office desk at home in Austin, Texas, my bookshelves are packed with conservation histories.
Beguiled by the way sea and sky played together, almost always unpredictably, John F. Kennedy was enthralled by the complexity of the Atlantic Ocean: the moody sky, the invisible might of the tides, shifting clouds, and the yaw and pitch of movement.
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And Watergate woes were festering around Nixon, whose 173 would turn out to be vastly more problematic than he could have imagined when celebrating the New Year in oceanside San Clemente.
(Epilogue) It had been Rachel Carson's Revolution, but Udall, the last leaf on the tree, emerged in the four decades following her death as the environmental justice steward of her long-ago dreams back in Springdale, Pennsylvania, along the banks of the Allegheny River.
"Chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon"--
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