读《寂静的春天》，恍然感受到我们无时无刻都在向土壤、河流、空气倾泻大量化学物品，无机农药、有机合成物、放射性污染、各种聚合物。在逐渐消失的植物动物下还有逐渐失去活力的土壤和水系，以及其中的微生物们。
我将其中的微生物放大再放大，它们造型各异，没有表情。我用做沙发的零料做成软体抱枕，扔到各处，像是一个大的生命体，没有动却又像活着。它们让我重新审视这个世界，和我对这个世界的影响。
长长的须子是它们的鞭毛，帮助它们在介质中游动，怪异却又有生命的活力。
长长的须子是它们的鞭毛，帮助它们在介质中游动，怪异却又有生命的活力。
夜以继日的在缝纫机前做了五个出来，很喜欢。
Reading Silent Spring, we suddenly feel that we are pouring a lot of chemicals, inorganic pesticides, organic compounds, radioactive pollution, various polymers into the soil, rivers and air all the time. Beneath the disappearing plants and animals are the dying soil and water systems, and the microbes that live in them.
I zoomed in and zoomed in on the microbes, all different shapes and no expressions. I made soft pillows out of sofa parts and threw them around like a big living thing, not moving but still alive. They made me reassess the world and my impact on it.
I zoomed in and zoomed in on the microbes, all different shapes and no expressions. I made soft pillows out of sofa parts and threw them around like a big living thing, not moving but still alive. They made me reassess the world and my impact on it.
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Long fibrous hairs are their flagella, which help them swim through the medium, with eerie yet vital energy.
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I made five at the sewing machine day and night, and I loved it.
我们根本没有调查化学品对土壤、水体、野生物乃至人类自身有何影响，就匆匆忙忙把化学农药喷洒了出去。大自然承载着万物的生存，可是我们已经打破了自然环境的和谐与整体性，后世子孙大概不会宽恕我们如此草率的行为。
人们对这种威胁的性质仍然知之甚少。这是一个专家当道的时代，这些人出于无知或偏狭，总是只盯着自己的专业领域，看不到背后反映出的整体问题。这也是一个工业化生产的时代，只要产品能赚钱，无论付出什么代价都不会有人质疑。公众看到杀虫剂所致的灾难性后果而提出抗议，却只能收获一些半真半假的安慰。我们需要戳穿虚伪的承诺，剥去那层糖衣，正视难以下咽的苦果。用法国生物学家让·罗斯丹的话来说：忍受的义务赋予我们知情权。
———《寂静的春天》
人们对这种威胁的性质仍然知之甚少。这是一个专家当道的时代，这些人出于无知或偏狭，总是只盯着自己的专业领域，看不到背后反映出的整体问题。这也是一个工业化生产的时代，只要产品能赚钱，无论付出什么代价都不会有人质疑。公众看到杀虫剂所致的灾难性后果而提出抗议，却只能收获一些半真半假的安慰。我们需要戳穿虚伪的承诺，剥去那层糖衣，正视难以下咽的苦果。用法国生物学家让·罗斯丹的话来说：忍受的义务赋予我们知情权。
———《寂静的春天》
We rush out chemical pesticides without investigating their effects on soil, water, wildlife or even ourselves. Nature bears the survival of all things, but we have broken the harmony and integrity of the natural environment, and posterity will probably not forgive us for such hasty behavior.
The nature of the threat is still poorly understood. This is the age of the expert, who, out of ignorance or intolerance, is too fixated on his own field of expertise to see the larger picture. It was also an age of industrial production, and as long as the product made money, no matter what the cost, no one would question it. Public protests at the disastrous effects of pesticides yield only half-comfort. We need to Pierce the false promises, peel off the sugar coating and face the bitter pill. In the words of The French biologist Jean Rosdam: the duty to endure gives us the right to know.
-- Silent Spring
The nature of the threat is still poorly understood. This is the age of the expert, who, out of ignorance or intolerance, is too fixated on his own field of expertise to see the larger picture. It was also an age of industrial production, and as long as the product made money, no matter what the cost, no one would question it. Public protests at the disastrous effects of pesticides yield only half-comfort. We need to Pierce the false promises, peel off the sugar coating and face the bitter pill. In the words of The French biologist Jean Rosdam: the duty to endure gives us the right to know.
-- Silent Spring
