今天下午天气很棒，在河边听着小溪和鸟儿的声音，读了这本书的序言及前两章，感觉很棒，来跟大家聊聊。
从序言中得知本书的梗概、影响、以及作者的生平。先来说说书，寂静的春天这本书从某种杀虫剂对环境的危害说起，进而谈论环境收到损害那么所处环境中的人类自然也会收到危害。大自然上千年来都是处于平衡的状态，最近一两千年来因为人类不断地想要“控制”自然，而非与自然和谐相处，人类和自然乃是一体的，而并非是自然的主人。由于人类为了经济利益对环境造成了无数难以预估的灾难但并无人重视。作者创作这本书的时候距今大概七十年前，美国世界还处于发展经济而不重视环境的阶段，所以在当时开来，作者的观点和敏锐的视角可以算是非常有先见性的。不过作者在世的时候非常有信心，相信自己的观点一定能够引起足够的重视。尽管非常努力，她生前并没有等到这一天，而在她去世的六年后，美国才设立了环境保护日、环境保护的相关法律等等。作者本是学习海洋生物学出身的，毕业后在政府的渔业相关单位工作，凭借着自己的努力和对语言创作的能力，在职场中缓慢但稳步提升着自己的地位，逐渐地，从原本只负责海洋相关的码字工作，到各个领域的码字工作都会涉猎，也借由这样的机会补足了其他领域的相关科学知识，为她同时进行并且对后世有深远影响的创作工作打下了坚实的基础。
本书的第一章叫 A Fable for Tomorrow 一则明天的寓言，我特别喜欢，里面对自然的景色描绘，真的太棒了，正如序言作者在前文评价的：Rachel Carson has a poetic and lyrical voice. 真的特别优美，仅看描述，就仿佛置身那美景之中。
THERE WAS ONCE a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings. The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields. In autumn, oak and maple and birch set up a blaze of color that flamed and flickered across a backdrop of pines. Then foxes barked in the hills and deer silently crossed the fields, half hidden in the mists of the fall mornings.
Along the roads, laurel, viburnum and alder, great ferns and wildflowers delighted the traveler’s eye through much of the year. Even in winter the roadsides were places of beauty, where countless birds came to feed on the berries and on the seed heads of the dried weeds rising above the snow. The countryside was, in fact, famous for the abundance and variety of its bird life, and when the flood of migrants was pouring through in spring and fall people traveled from great distances to observe them. Others came to fish the streams, which flowed clear and cold out of the hills and contained shady pools where trout lay. So it had been from the days many years ago when the first settlers raised their houses, sank their wells, and built their barns.
然而这一切美好，在某天突然就变了，于是文字开始有了转折，那一切美好都被某种恶魔破坏掉了.... 尽管这是一则寓言，但是在美国，乃至全世界的各个角落，都有相同或者类似或者更严重的悲剧在上演，由此，作者展开本书的论述。
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No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.
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What has already silenced the voices of spring in countless towns in America? This book is an attempt to explain.
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