After reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring,  I truly learned  and appreciate Rachel Carson's love and tenacity for biology and the fight to protect the ecosystem from man-made chemical exposure. She was a woman of passion committed throughout her short life to increase awareness of the chemical pollutants that could ultimately change our environment. In the beginning of the book, Carson illustrates a captivating scene where she describes a town experiencing once teeming with life (i.e. birds singing, fish-filled streams, prosperous farms, and other wildlife) only to be silence due to the effects of environmental pollutants. It is a situation that could happen and has happened to some degree in other communities. Carson is considered a heightening figure in raising awareness in environment health  because she challenged the government through her writing to 1) take responsibility for or acknowledge evidence of damage  from releasing toxic pesticide chemicals (for example, DDT or the "elixir of death"), 2) offer more protection for the citizens that they endanger, and 3) protection of the environment. I too believe as she once believed that human health would ultimately reflect the environment's ills (Carson, 1962). The truth, as it was found most evident in this book, is that the human and natural world are inseparable and should be treated with care to ensure longevity.