Three deer saunter through the snow-covered trees just behind the house where the great environmentalist Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring, her most influential book. Gazing out the extra large back windows at the natural beauty of the scene, one can see why Carson’s Quaint Acres home provided such a stimulating setting for her writing.

Carson, called one of the “[20th] Century’s Greatest Minds” by Time magazine, loved her Silver Spring neighborhood. It still looks much the same as it did when she wrote her book a half-century ago.