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.
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.
尽管有法布尔的《昆虫记》这样的书做良师,我还是没有爱上昆虫,事实上,我讨厌几乎一切昆虫,从苍蝇、蚊子到无害的甲虫、蚯蚓,我都巴不得把它们消灭掉。因为在城市里长大的我,害怕它们。每当搬开一块儿红砖,看到下面抱团翻滚的蚯蚓,就差点作呕。洗菜时,遇见一只白虫...
评分 评分19、20世纪以来的科技革命使得人类社会“飞速发展”了。如今,连这个 发展速度本身也在飞速提高着。飞机飞行超过一定加速度的时候,飞行 员就会因超重而黑视,两眼模糊,看不清东西。如今的人类社会就已经 进入了“黑视”状态。我们看不清世界,看不清自己。作为动物的本能...
评分书的内容就不用我评述了,但是翻译的水平、抑或是态度,却让我非常不满。 不知是我的中文阅读水平不到家,还是最近英文看得太多,总之我总感觉这本书看起来疙疙瘩瘩的。
评分《寂静的春天》描述了农药所带来的一连串连锁反应。它导致地表下和地下海受到污染、土壤贫瘠、生物链断口,最后发生一场无人幸免的天灾。这种惊世骇俗的预言招到了各方的抨击。因为,当时在政策中还没有“环境”这一条款时,她以《寂静的春天》为扩音器,在1962年,大声喊出了...
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。
评分half in original text and half in summaries. don't know how much I still remember...
评分最初读的动力是因为...Carson是海洋生物学家..还是看中文的吧吧吧....
评分一个无可辩驳的事实是:这个女人改变了历史,或者说促进了历史!
评分meh.
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