"The power of her knowledge and the beauty of her language made her one of the most influential women of our time," wrote the New York Times about American biologist Rachel Carson. Her book "Silent Spring," published in 1962, shook the world: she drew attention to the excessive use of pesticides and its consequences. As a result, the conservation movement became politicized, and new environmental movements were founded. She was actually a marine biologist and had already written several books about life in and around the sea, in a unique combination of science and poetry. Thanks to Carson's extraordinary sense of nature observation and her writing talent, these works became bestsellers and made the young scientist nationally known. Rachel Carson's ecological thinking...