Children's Digest, June 1st, 1994
Standing in the middle of a neighbor's parlor, four-year-old Rachel Carson lifted the conch shell to her ear and listened. Was that really the ocean that she heard? The soft whisper grew fainter then louder again.
It was not the sound of a bird, singing to babies in the nest. It was not the sound of the raccoons playfully arguing outside her window at night. Nor was it the almost silent sound of butterflies fluttering their wings as they flitted from tree branch to blade of grass.
Rachel know those sounds because she carefully observed the world around her. She loved to sit in the meadow o...
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