[00:00:04] A little girl born to right and fascinated by nature created a worldwide environmental movement. she was first published at the age of 10 years old in a children’s magazine called The Saint Nicholas dedicated to the work of young writers in which the likes of William Faulkner and F. Scott Fitzgerald also wrote…
[00:00:04] A little girl born to right and fascinated by nature created a worldwide environmental movement. she was first published at the age of 10 years old in a children’s magazine called The Saint Nicholas dedicated to the work of young writers in which the likes of William Faulkner and F. Scott Fitzgerald also wrote in. As a matter of fact the magazine has an article in The
American Heritage called the magazine that talked Faulkner Fitzgerald and Millay how to write in one of her writings in the article on July of 1922 she wrote. The writer is now 14 years old and told the league about the day of birdwatching that ended with a resounding sunset. And this is what she writes. “The cool of approaching night settled. The wood thrushes trilled their golden melody. The setting sun transformed the sky into a sea of blue and gold. A vesper sparrow sung his evening lullaby. We turned homeward, gloriously tired, gloriously happy!.
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1925 she entered Pennsylvania College for Women as an English major determined
to become a writer but midway through these switched to biology and graduated
from what is known today as Chatham University now upon graduation from
Pennsylvania college she was awarded a scholarship to complete graduate work in
biology at John Hopkins University in Maryland and there she received her
master’s in zoology from John Hopkins University, in 1932 now understand that
you are in the middle of a depression and you’re going to college as a very
young student and graduating and getting a master’s degree for a woman. This
was virtually unheard of in 1932 a woman with a master’s degree in the middle
of a depression.
What is she going to do. Well she was hired by the year the
U.S. Bureau of Fisheries what is known today as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service. And she was hired to write scripts during the depression for a seven
minute radio spot called romance under the waters on a miniscule nineteen
dollars and 25 cents a week and this began her 15 year career. In the federal
service as a scientist and an editor of which she rose through the ranks to
become editor in chief of a publication from the same Bureau and she’s always
supplementing her income by writing feature articles on natural history for the
Baltimore Sun now understand she wrote pamphlets on conservation Natural
Resources, edited scientific articles she was the editor in chief in 1937 she
wrote an article for The Atlantic Monthly called Undersea in 1941 a book titled
Under the Sea was a New York Times bestseller.
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weeks and it was eventually published and translated into 32 languages in 1952
she published her award winning study of the ocean called the Sea Around Us. In
1955 the Edge Of The Sea. Now these books all constituted a biography of an
ocean and made her a famous naturalist and science writer in the public eye.
She was already loved and respected for the writings that she wrote in
basically story form. In 1956 she wrote a book called Help Your Child to Wonder
and in 1957 Our Ever Changing Shore.
By this time she is an accomplished writer though depression
is now over. The economy is improving and she’s had a 15 year career in
government as a scientist as a writer an accomplished writer. And she is now In
1963 she is testifying before Congress and she calls for new policies to