This book is part of the Penguin series “Green ideas”. Rachel Carson was a marine biologist and conservationist. She wrote a book, “Silent Spring”, which had a massive impact on the awareness of the influence of man on nature. This little book I read is one of the chapters of “Silent Spring” where Carson goes through the consequences of using pesticides that kill not only the bug that we want to destroy but also the crops, the fish, the birds, other animals, and the water around these fields that have been drowned in these pesticides… leading to a spring with no songs of birds, no splashing of fish. She also unveils the lack of data on the consequences of all these pesticides on human beings. This text is 60 years old but is still painful to read. Has anything really changed since then?