Silent Spring: Excerpt from the classic novel

Answer 1

The following are some of Silent Spring's classic sayings:
1. It was not magic, nor was it the enemy's activities that prevented the resurrection of life in this damaged world, but the people themselves who were harming themselves.
2. The time needed for life to adjust its original balance was not measured in years, but in thousands of years.
3. The hereditary effects of radiation have taken us by surprise, but how can we be careless about the same effects of chemicals that are widely spread in our surroundings?
4. In fact, the most astonishing aspect of the chemical pollution of water is the fact that in a river, lake, or reservoir, or in a glass of water at your table, there are chemicals mixed in that the chemist never thought of synthesizing in his laboratory.
5. As the pesticide continues to be used, the truly stubborn toxins continue to accumulate in the soil, and one thing is almost certain: we are heading for trouble.
6. We want birds? Or an elm tree? In the eyes of ordinary people, choosing between the two seemed to be a very simple matter. In reality, the problem was not that simple. One of the most widespread ironies of chemistry in the field of drug control is that if we continue down the path we are on now, we are likely to end up without birds or elms.
7. Where there are large forests, modern methods of insect control threaten the streams where fish live in the shade.
8. The spraying of chemicals over farmlands and forests had become what British ecologists called the "terrifying rain of death" that fell on the earth's surface.
9. If one wanted to find food that did not contain ddt and related chemicals, it seemed that one had to go to a distant, primitive land and give up the comfortable life of modern civilization.
10. The production of chemical drugs began in the industrial revolution era, and now it had entered a peak of production, followed by the emergence of a serious public health problem.
11. It is likely that some of the symptoms of reproductive decline are also associated with the disorder of biological biochemistry and the depletion of the vital storage of ATP.
12. When modern people made plans to control insects, they ignored two important facts. First, the real effective control of insects was done by nature, not humans. The second neglected fact was that once the environmental defenses were weakened, the truly explosive reproductive ability of some insects would resurrect.
13. We are dealing with life, with living groups, with all the pressures and counterpressures they are subjected to, with their rise and fall.
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