The first panel is a sort of intro-panel. It leads into the main point by showing a beautiful and normally functioning area of growth - a bright river, a tree, a flower, lush grass. The second panel, mandating a closer look, is showing a completely normal looking leaf with wavey lines on top to show the stink of invisible pesticides on the surface.
The third panel shows an eye watching a group of pesticides. However, the pupil is pointed upward, showing the lack of decent laws controlling usage. The next panel shows a darker river and grass with the tree gone and dead fish at the surface. The fish are colored blue as if to blend in with the river, showing the lack of attention the problem gets. The bugs in the next two panels are colored red in order to show a sort of negative connotation held by most, but in reality, these are crucial to the balance of nature and the pesticides marked with blue and green are used to kill them. The view of pesticides is reversed and inaccurate.
The panels on the back are more of a summation. The tree with the single leaf shows the eventual regrowth and cycle after ticks and other bugs affected by DDT wipe out the pests, leaving a healthy situation behind for the trees. The panel shows the uselessness of pesticides, further elaborated by the next panel and the lightning incorrectly zapping the tick instead of the can. The next panel shows the cells mentioned by Carson. She says that pesticides destroy living processes and cells, and by putting this in the eye, another blink will lead to the same death and destruction. Finally, the world can come to a balance if we just stop with the pesticide and let nature take its course.
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