Summertime, And the Readin' is Easy...

Somehow, what with several family dramas and my own job search, I missed this little activity over at Environmental Defense: What Is the Most Influential Environmental Book? They offered a list of choices, mostly non-fiction, though with a couple of fiction titles thrown in, and readers were given the chance to vote. The hands-down winner was HD Thoreau's Walden; no surprise, as it's had a real lead in years, not to mention being required reading in most American Lit college courses, and a close second was Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson, the book that truly "gave birth to the modern environmental movement."

Had I gotten there in time to vote, I think Carson's would have been my choice as the most influential book. As the blurb in this article states, in this book "Carson exposes the hazards of pesticides and other pollution, sounding both a warning and a call to action." Walden inspired hippy dreams of escaping to the woods, Silent Spring opened my eyes to the reality around me.

Too late to vote, but it's an interesting list, including some I haven't read, missing some that belong on it. Check it out; there's a link for adding your own entries to the field on the article, although I'd love to hear some readers' favorites here at our own blog.

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