Descriere
'Read this book, then look and wonder' Sunday Times
We have to learn to live as part of nature, not apart from it. And the first step is to start looking after the insects, the little creatures that make our shared world go round.
Insects are essential for life as we know it - without them, our world would look vastly different. Drawing on the latest ground-breaking research and a lifetime's study, Dave Goulson reveals the long decline of insect populations that has taken place in recent decades and its potential consequences.
Eye-opening and inspiring, Silent Earth asks for profound change at every level and a passionate argument or us to love, respect and care for our six-legged friends.
'Compelling - Silent Earth is a wake-up call' Isabella Tree, author of Wilding
'Enlightening, urgent and funny, Goulson's book is a timely call for action' New Statesman
A powerful book
Mark Cocker, Financial Times
Thoughtful, frightening and yet hugely enjoyable... This book will make you think differently about our right of dominion over the planet
Daily Telegraph
It's remarkable that insect decline has gone largely unnoticed by non-specialists... Keep dreaming, Dave Goulson. We'll need more dreamers like you
The Times
If Silent Earth contains a single incontestable message it is that nature - insects, flowers, plants, trees, birds and mammals, including our species - is a single system... This powerful book tells us that we need to act as if we understand this essential truth
Financial Times
Compelling, penetrating, devastating - Silent Earth is a wake-up call for the world. Dave Goulson matches science with eloquence and passion to spotlight the cataclysmic loss of insect life on our planet. Rachel Carson would be proud.
Isabella Tree
Read this book, then look and wonder
Sunday Times
Insects are the most vivid expressions of the astounding fact of life in what may be a dead universe. Read this book, then look and wonder.
Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times
Thoughtful, frightening and yet hugely enjoyable... This book will make you think differently about our right of dominion over the planet.
Joe Shute, Daily Telegraph
Studded with engaging descriptions...[and] a plenitude of practical suggestions... This is a crusading but not a preachy book... I was charmed, enthused, dismayed and grieved by Silent Earth.
Richard Davenport-Hines, The Oldie
His magnum opus. Silent Earth is both a heartfelt letter of love to the insect world that has captivated him from childhood, and a rousing call to arms to counter the recent catastrophic decline in insects before it is too late... Magnificent.
Caroline Sanderson, The Bookseller, Book of the Month
