in 1995, environmental historian William Cronon wrote that “the time has come to rethink wilderness.” In a searing essay, he argued that the concept of wilderness, especially as perceived in the United States, had become unjustly synonymous with grandeur. Eighteenth-century thinkers believed that vast and magnificent landscapes reminded people of their own mortality and brought them closer to glimpsing the divine. “God was on the mountaintop, in the chasm, in the waterfall, in the thundercloud, in the rainbow, in thesunset,” Cronon wrote. “One has only to think of the sites that Americans chose for their first national parks—Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Rainier, Zion—to realize that virtually all of them fit one or more of these categories. Less sublime landscapes simply did not ap... (查看原文)
We are used to senses like vision or hearing that offer nigh-instantaneous information. Magnetoreception probably doesn’t work like that, but we don’t know the timescales over which it does work. Without knowing that, or without even realizing that you need to find out, it’s hard to design good experiments. As I wrote in the introduction, a scientist’s data are influenced by the questions she asks, which are steered by her imagination, which is delimited by her senses. The boundaries of our own Umwelt corral our ability to understand the Umwelten of others. (查看原文)
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埃德·扬 作者
colin
Soundofwood
Random House2022版（其他版本）
1 有用 Jiang 2025-12-05 01:25:05 英国
这本书给我的感受是，它让我重拾儿时看百科全书的快乐，几乎每一章每一页我都特别新奇细致的读下去，它给了我太多有趣的生物小知识和由此引发的各种思考，比如电对于所有生物的意义，梯度普遍存在的价值等等。这种万花筒的一瞥惊奇，好像只有儿时才有的这种经历又难得的出现了，非常推荐这本书给热爱动物以及大自然的读者，那好奇心被满足带来的愉悦，实在难得。
1 有用 X 2025-01-11 16:51:04 辽宁
扇貝有視覺
0 有用 hou.danwu 2026-09-29 16:21:09 上海
不看不知道，世界真奇妙。嗅觉让我想起了猎魔人杰洛特。具身智能光是传感器估计都比不了现实中的小生物，或许脑机接口加上ai大脑义体才是正解
1 有用 Hikari__ 2024-04-24 18:01:41 四川
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0 有用 ccsy 2025-03-30 14:30:59 北京
扎实，有趣，在不能“身临其境”体验动物Umwelt的情况下，尽其可能地领会它。