Rachel Carson - Ellis Paul

Rachel went a’walkin in the woods at twilight

Talking to the animals, listening to the trees

She heard the beauty in the whistling songbird

The rustling of the hickory, the buzzing of the bees

She wandered, wondering, what could she bring

To give a voice to the silence of the spring

One day came the big bulldozers

The planes dropping chemicals

People cutting trees

Rachel saw the bald eagle suffering

High up in the canopy

To the edge of the sea

And oh, they’re tearing the big trees down

They’re covering the crops with a cloud of spray

And the bulldozers and the high-rises from town

Come so close you can’t hear the forest sounds

Rachel wrote a book on an old typewriter

About the poison in the atmosphere

And in the air we breathe

She told the truth and the world started listening

She was talking for the animals

Speaking for the trees