Statue of Rachel Carson

An outdoor sculpture depicting the biologist, conservationist, and author of the same name by David Lewis was installed in Waterfront Park in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States, on July 14, 2013.

The initial plans for the Rachel Carson outdoor statue at Waterfront Park in Woods Hole, Massachusetts were announced September 27, 2012, the 50th anniversary of the publication of Silent Spring.

[1] The statue is based on a 1951 photograph by Edwin Gray that was taken on the dock near Sam Cahoon's Fish Market in Woods Hole.

[3] Additional committee and members included Catherine Bumpus, James "Jim" Crossen, Mary Pat Flynn, Jack Moakley, and Marsha Zafiriou.

"[1] Additional speakers included the current president and director of the Laboratory Joan Ruderman, Susan Avery, president of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the science and research director of the Northeast Fisheries Science Center, William Karp and Cheryl Osimo, the co-founder of the Silent Spring Institute.

Rachel Carson's words are engraved on a stone at the base of the statue, which faces Great Harbor and Woods Hole passage .