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1、寂静的春天英文读后感 寂静的春天英文读后感 寂静的春天以寓言开头向我们描绘了一个美丽村庄的突变，并从陆地到海洋，从海洋到天空，全方位地揭示了化学农药的危害，是一本公认的开启了世界环境运动的奠基之作，它既贯穿着严谨求实的科学理性精神，又充溢着敬畏生命的人文情怀，是一本赏心悦目的著作。 “There was a strange stillness. The birds, for examplewhere had they gone?” “The feeding stations in the backyards were deserted. The few birds seen anywhere
2、were moribund; they trembled violently and could not fly. It was spring without voices.” “On the farms the hens brooded, but no chicks hatched.” “The roadsides, once so attractive, were now lined with browned and withered vegetation as though swept by fire. These, too, were silent, deserted by all l
3、iving things. Even the streams were now lifeless.” This is a strange scene described by Rachel Carson, who is regarded as “the mother of modern environmental protection movement”。 Silent Spring is her representative work which lighted the fire of environmental protection in America and the whole wor
4、ld. Before 1960s, no books or _gazines talked about things like environment and ecosystem. Such a phenomenon means that environmental protection had not e to peoples mind and the social consciousness. Indeed, the _in opinion in hu _n society from the very past about nature is to “set war against” or
5、 “conquer” it. In fact, _ny of hu _ns progresses are _de on the base of such opinion. Rachel Carson was the first person who doubted the correctness of the belief and brought the topic under focus. In Silent Spring, Carson described a miserable village which was dying under the using of DDT. The vil
6、lage used to be prosperous and beautiful. “In spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields. In autumn, oak and _ple and birch set up a blaze of color that flamed and flickered across a backdrop of pines. Then foxed barked in the hills and deer silently crossed the fields, half hidden
7、 in the mists of the fall mornings.” She thought that with the using of variety kinds of pesticide, especially DDTs, the village suffered enormous and irreversible da _ge and gradually withered and _d. Soon it became just like the one described in the beginning. From her fine and _ooth describing, I
8、 can even feel the groan of the town. Moreover Carson also sharply pointed out that the deep-seated cause for the environmental problem is the hu _ns arrogance and ignorance. So she asked people to correct the attitude toward the nature and reconsidered the developing path of hu _n being. Carson tho
9、ught that because of the antibody and differentiation, pesticides would never be pletely useful. On the contrary, those more and more poisonous medicines, because of the enrichment effect, would aumulate in hu _ns body. Its quite sarcastic that we hurt ourselves much badly while hurting the others.
10、Then she _yzed _ny poisonous ponents in pesticides. Those are all unfamiliar names except DDT, such as chlordane, chloronaphthalene, pound 497, etc. Those things really _ke me feel scared. We are on the top of the food chain, and it is such a perfect and fragile system. We hu _n beings are just part
11、 of it and we depend on all of the creatures who stay on the lower positions. It is so hard and ridiculous to try to _tch the nature. ”Only in the state does _n have a rational existence.” Every species have their value to be on this world. Then no one knows what would happened if we force them to d
12、isappear. For example, lets i _gine the food chain as a meticulously _de castle built by billions of little blocks and we hu _n beings are the top one. There might be several tiny blocks on the bottom which you think is useless and dispensable. But what would happen if we take them away? Perhaps not
13、hing happened, and perhaps the whole castle ruined. Destruction is always much easier than recovery, not counting those incurable ones. Hu _ns always think that we are much cleverer than the other ani _ls, so we bee more and more conceited and firmly believe that we are the king. We didnt see that t
14、he nature is so _gical and knows how to revenge. The pay back is much more violent and cruel. We need balance and order. The nature has its own rule. Our aim is to use it and live in harmony with it. The ecosystem is so delicate that even a tiny disturbance could lead an unexpected consequence, just
15、 like the butterfly effect. At the last chapter, some scientists came up with other ways to solve the pest problem-biotic control. There is now a strongly running tide of interest in chemical sterility. Those sterile insects are released and _te the nor _l ones so that they wont have any larva and g
16、et extinct gradually. This “solution” seems to be reasonable and helpful, but thinking about it carefully, youll find that it is just another way to ruin the food chain castle. Not only spring, but also summer and autumn would be still and silent in the future. It is lucky that Rachel still kept her mind clear. She didnt agree with the way of conquering the nature. At the very end of
