https://www.themarginalian.org/2018/08/21/rachel-carson-the-sea-around-us-blue/?mc_cid=f77a95eeef&mc_eid=1b0bdfbfbf
In 1937, a quarter century before she catalyzed the modern environmental movement with her epoch-making book Silent Spring, marine biologist and author Rachel Carson (May 27, 1907–April 14, 1964) pioneered a new storytelling aesthetic by making science a literary subject in an exquisite Atlantic Monthly essay titled Undersea. This lyrical, unprecedented invitation to imagine our blue planet from the perspective of nonhuman creatures — creatures that inhabit the aquatic mystery Walt Whitman called “the world below the brine” — earned Carson a book deal. It became the basis of her 1951 book The Sea Around Us (public library), which won Carson the National Book Award and soon rendered her the most respected science writer in America.
