Rachel Carson (1907-1964) spent most of her professional life as a marine biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. By the late 1950s, she had written three lyrical, popular books about the sea, including the best-selling The Sea Around Us, and had become the most respected science writer in America. She completed Silent Spring against formidable personal odds, and with it shaped a powerful social movement that has altered the course of history.
发表于2025-03-22
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原刊于中华读书报 2007年8月 文:余凤高 -声明:如需转载先请私信联系 春天是鲜花盛开、百鸟齐鸣的季节,春天里不应是寂静无声,尤其是在春天的田野。可是并不是人人都会注意到,从某一个时候起,突然地,在春天里就不再听到燕子的呢喃、黄莺的啁啾,田野里变得寂静无声了。美...
评分一 今天下午碰到写《哈佛经济学笔记》的陈晋,说到一个故事。 说DDT当年是消灭蚊虫的,减少传播致命的疟疾。Rachel Carson在1962年出《寂静的春天》,说鸟语花香在几十年后因为环境恶化不见了,罪魁祸首之一是DDT,书出版后,很多地方禁止使用DDT,但与此 同时,2000万儿童死...
评分《狮子王》中有一段经典对白,狮子王木法沙语重心长地告诉小狮子辛巴——要懂得大自然的微妙平衡,要尊重每一种生物:从爬行的蚂蚁到跳跃的羚羊,大自然是环环相扣的,虽然狮子捕食羚羊,可狮子死去以后会化为青草,成为羚羊们的美味。小狮子当时并不懂父亲所说,直到多...
评分一 今天下午碰到写《哈佛经济学笔记》的陈晋,说到一个故事。 说DDT当年是消灭蚊虫的,减少传播致命的疟疾。Rachel Carson在1962年出《寂静的春天》,说鸟语花香在几十年后因为环境恶化不见了,罪魁祸首之一是DDT,书出版后,很多地方禁止使用DDT,但与此 同时,2000万儿童死...
评分《狮子王》中有一段经典对白,狮子王木法沙语重心长地告诉小狮子辛巴——要懂得大自然的微妙平衡,要尊重每一种生物:从爬行的蚂蚁到跳跃的羚羊,大自然是环环相扣的,虽然狮子捕食羚羊,可狮子死去以后会化为青草,成为羚羊们的美味。小狮子当时并不懂父亲所说,直到多...
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First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. "Silent Spring became a runaway bestseller, with international reverberations . . . It is] well crafted, fearless and succinct . . . Even if she had not inspired a generation of activists, Carson would prevail as one of the greatest nature writers in American letters" (Peter Matthiessen, for Time's 100 Most Influential People of the Century). This fortieth anniversary edition celebrates Rachel Carson's watershed book with a new introduction by the author and activist Terry Tempest Williams and a new afterword by the acclaimed Rachel Carson biographer Linda Lear, who tells the story of Carson's courageous defense of her truths in the face of ruthless assault from the chemical industry in the year following the publication of Silent Spring and before her untimely death in 1964.
这本书援引了大量的科学原理和数据,但可以感受到作者字里行间表达的悲痛、讽刺和希望。可以想见当时写下并发表这本书需要多大的勇气、决心和智慧。所幸words can make a difference。“Our aim should be to guide natural processes as cautiously as possible in the desired direction rather than to use brute force... Life is a miracle beyond our comprehension, and we should reverence it even where we have to struggle against it.”
评分She is a great woman.
评分这本书援引了大量的科学原理和数据,但可以感受到作者字里行间表达的悲痛、讽刺和希望。可以想见当时写下并发表这本书需要多大的勇气、决心和智慧。所幸words can make a difference。“Our aim should be to guide natural processes as cautiously as possible in the desired direction rather than to use brute force... Life is a miracle beyond our comprehension, and we should reverence it even where we have to struggle against it.”
评分当初学习生态文明与经济学关系,根本没有新的切入点,无非就是循环经济和可持续发展。
评分环境保护、食品安全这种看似烂大街的题材,却深入浅出,交织穿插各方利益博弈角逐,游刃有余,是科学人文写作范本。人类的短视打破了生态链,自以为消灭了害虫,其实毁掉了人和近乎无限繁殖的昆虫之间的自然屏障。50年前的写作深度和立意比国内“惊!苹果竟然不能吃!”不知道高到哪里去了。
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