BANGOR DAILY NEWS • November 1, 2022
The marine biologist and conservationist Rachel Carson spent many summers in Maine writing and sharing time with family and friends. In “The Sense of Wonder,” which began as a well-received essay in the years prior to the publication of “Silent Spring,” Carson captured many of these Maine moments. She continued expanding on it through the years. It was to be her last book, published posthumously in 1965. In “The Sense of Wonder,” Carson shares her belief that as we age our sense of wonder becomes muffled, an exiled prisoner with self-imposed blinders to a natural world that wants to have a conversation with us. Carson’s wish was that everyone could keep that child-like sense of wonder intact forever. ~ RJ Heller