Green Thought For The Week

A Green Thought For The Week every week of the year! A 'Green' quote, to start your week, from various sources across the spectrum of the green movement, science and philosophy. Though the selection is broad the perspective of this blog is that of Deep Ecology. The quotes have been selected, complied and edited by John Gale a long term Deep Ecologist. Also hosted is John Gale's "Green Reading List" which lists a selection of must reads for those wishing to Green their perspective!

Monday, 17 September 2012

Rachel Carson - Silent Spring

The “control of nature” is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man”.

Today’s Green Thought comes from the 1962 book that alerted the industrialised world to the dangers of unregulated pesticide use - Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_carson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Spring

1 comment:

Damon Hoppe17 September 2012 at 13:09
Silent Spring was the first 'Ecological' book I read...Changed my world view overnight...

I feel the comment is a little unfair on the oft maligned Neanderthal. It was, if you follow Jared Diamond's line of reasoning, the Cro-magnon which is the cause of all our troubles.

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