Silent Spring é um poema sinfônico de 2011 para orquestra do compositor americano Steven Stucky. A peça foi escrita para comemorar o quinquagésimo aniversário do livro de ciência ambiental Silent Spring de Rachel Carson e foi encomendada pela Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra em colaboração com o Rachel Carson Institute na Chatham University. A obra estreou em Pittsburgh em 17 de fevereiro de 2012, com a Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra regida por Manfred Honeck.
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“The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.”
“Writing is a lonely occupation at best. Of course there are stimulating and even happy associations with friends and colleagues, but during the actual work of creation the writer cuts himself off from all others and confronts his subject alone. He moves into a realm where he has never been before — perhaps where no one has ever been. It is a lonely place, even a little frightening.”
“I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future. To understand biology is to understand that all life is linked to the earth from which it came; it is to understand that the stream of life, flowing out of the dim past into the uncertain future, is in reality a unified force, though composed of an infinite number and variety of separate lives.”
“The modern world worships the gods of speed and quantity, and of the quick and easy profit, and out of this idolatry monstrous evils have arisen. Yet the evils go long unrecognized.”
“The sediments are a sort of epic poem of the earth.”
“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
