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.
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.
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EEO 书评人 焦建 光明乳业的前总裁王佳芬女士去年写了本自传,书名就叫《新鲜——我与光明十五年》。光明的成绩近来有目共睹,而王女士给我们提供了一个很有意思的小细节——为什么八十年代末九十年代初,光明会有那么大的发展?除了领导有方之外,其实还是因为——整个市场扩...
评分尽管有法布尔的《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...
评分题目不是问题,无论是《寂静的春天》还是 春天的寂静。 问题是我们究竟有多少人认识的没有鸟叫的春天是多么可怕的一件事情! 是的,我们可以用科技模拟一切,当然包括鸟叫虫鸣,我们不必出去,我们可以宅在家中,外卖,一个电...
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评分half in original text and half in summaries. don't know how much I still remember...
评分落叶剂制造 落叶的秋 辐射尘覆盖 清晨的冬 地球还残喘 人就创作末日 又何必等到 上帝没收
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。
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.”
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