Rachel Carson (1907–1964) was a marine biologist by training and profession of the intertidal zone where land and water meet and mingle on the edge of seas and oceans. She has been canonized as a nature writer, as an environmental writer, and the patron saint of American conservation. Her canonization rests on her classic environmental book Silent Spring first published in 1962 in which she presented a well-documented indictment of the use of the insecticide DDT and other biocides in the US and voiced a powerful protest against DDT and the others, and their uses. Silent Spring is usually read today as an anti-DDT tract and as a green consciousness-raiser. It is often seen as the founding text of the modern American environmental movement and as being broadly influential in the latter half of the twentieth century. Yet, perhaps more than Carson’s exposé of chemical abuse, her critique of the militarization of all life and the imposition of the corporate-state cult of death attracted the ire of the chemical corporations. Carson’s ecology with its critique of masculinism and militarism contributed these vital facets to the creation of feminist political ecology that embraces and addresses nature and gender critically.