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.
This is a rigorous presentation of the effects of pesticide use as well as a call to greater awareness of our environment.
有很长一段时期,我们拒绝谦卑。我们人类履至尊而制地球、执敲扑而役自然的决心是如此不可动摇,我们怎么可能谦和、卑从地甘受少数异端的蛊惑,回归到听天由命、膜拜造化的时代。我们的决心来自那份如今依然被部分人标为不容置疑的信念——人乃万物之灵。人类应当平等地对待其...
評分《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...
評分蕾切尔·卡森女士的《寂静的春天》阅读接近尾声,我觉得可以写上点什么了。 看着上译本后文中p299-p366那常常的参考文献索引以及从文章中体会出那种冷静的文字(其实开始我对不用阿拉伯数字而用汉字表示而有些阅读上的不快,后来才发现是编排上的一致感)就知道在50年前,在“...
評分(一) 最近在网络上,一个关于石油化工方面的项目的异议,唤醒了我的一些记忆。 我从小在一家化工厂的单位里长大,对于什么是污染,还是有些切身的感受。 在我们那里,一般人都牙齿不太好,或多或少有鼻炎。每次厂子里,安排体检时,被检查出脾大,通常被认为是太正常不过...
評分尽管有法布尔的《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...
經典;不過 人類對外界環境的改造 是不是也是人類進化的一環呢?或許 人類這一物種 將以前所未有的速度進化
评分經典;不過 人類對外界環境的改造 是不是也是人類進化的一環呢?或許 人類這一物種 將以前所未有的速度進化
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评分經典;不過 人類對外界環境的改造 是不是也是人類進化的一環呢?或許 人類這一物種 將以前所未有的速度進化
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