The name of the exhibit comes from the opening of the book "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson.

VOA: special.2010.12.15

The chemical poisoning of the environment,she said, would cause a silent spring.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

In her book "Silent Spring."

VOA: special.2010.03.14

In Silent Spring, Rachel Carson surmised that cancers of the reproductive system could be related to hormones.

FORBES: Connect

Silent Spring, Carson became something of an icon for the environmental movement that followed, especially for women activists.

UNESCO: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission

The disease killed Carson in 1964, two years after Silent Spring came out.

FORBES: But Her Heart Was Good