中央电视台科教频道（CCTV—10）《读书》栏目于2016年4月26日00：34分，第20160425期CTV-10 “博物生活”，推荐好书《寂静的春天》。

《人民日报》（2015年12月01日24 版），发表刘华杰的评论文章《像博物学家那样看世界（读书论世）》，评论《寂静的春天》。

《光明日报》在（2016年01月04日05版），发表本报记者杜羽报道《盘点2015年图书市场：“博物”出版热初露端倪》，报道《寂静的春天》。

本周六，2018年5月19日，由中央电视台综合频道（CCTV-1）播出的大型文化情感类节目《朗读者》第二季播出以“生命”为主题词的第三期节目。在本期节目中，英国著名动物学家珍·古道尔隔空对话野生动物保护志愿者黄泓翔上演隔空朗读《寂静的春天》，共同为大自然生灵“代言”。

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Silent Spring

By Rachel Carson

A Fable forTomorrow

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 checker board of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the greenf ields. 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 anddeer silently crossed the fields, half hidden in the mists of the fall mornings.

Along the roads, laurel, viburnum and alder, great ferns and wild flowers 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. Soit had been from the days many years ago when the first settlers raised their houses, sank their wells, and built their barns.

Then a strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change. Some evil spell had settled on the community: mysterious maladies swept the flocks ofchickens; the cattle and sheep sickened and died. Everywhere was a shadow of death. The farmers spoke of much illness among their families. In the town the doctors had become more and more puzzled by new kinds of sickness appearing among their patients. There had been several sudden and unexplained deaths, notonly among adults but even among children, who would be stricken suddenly while at play and die within a few hours.

There was a strange stillness. The birds, for example—where had they gone? Many people spoke of them, puzzled and disturbed. The feeding stations in the backyards were deserted. The few birds seen anywhere were moribund; they trembled violently and could not fly. It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds,doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound;only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh.

On the farms the hens brooded, but no chicks hatched. The farmers complained that they were unable to raise any pigs—the litters were small and the young survived only a few days. The apple trees were coming into bloom but no beesdroned among the blossoms, so there was no pollination and there would be nofruit.

The roadsides, once so attractive, were now lined with browned and withered vegetation as though swept by fire. These, too, were silent, deserted by allliving things. Even the streams were now lifeless. Anglers no longer visited them, for all the fish had died.

In the guttersunder the eaves and between the shingles of theroofs, a white granular powder still showed a few patches; Some weeks before ithad fallen like snow upon the roofs and the lawns, the fields and streams. Now it chcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.This town does not actually exist, but it might easily have a thousand counterpartsi n America or elsewhere in the world. I know of no community that has experienced all the misfortunes I describe. Yet every one of these disastershas actually happened somewhere, and many real communities have already suffered a substantial number of them. A grim specter has crept upon us almost unnoticed, and this imagined tragedy may easily become a stark reality we all shall know.

What has already silenced the voices of spring in countless towns in America?This book is an attempt to explain.