tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35546240.post1228565269066581229..comments2023-08-20T02:55:42.721-05:00Comments on Welcome to the Rachel Carson Centennial Blog: Remarks by Moderator Mark LytleNCTC Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16160333822375645632noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35546240.post-20581560566546453302007-07-20T10:17:00.000-05:002007-07-20T10:17:00.000-05:002007 is also the centennial year for Loren Eiseley...2007 is also the centennial year for Loren Eiseley. Is it possible to know what influence Rachel Carson and Loren Eiseley had on each other's writing?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35546240.post-79209856644057876972007-07-19T23:27:00.000-05:002007-07-19T23:27:00.000-05:00Anguilla anguilla is the scientific name of Europe...Anguilla anguilla is the scientific name of European eels and isn't Rhynchops (Rhynchops niger) a black skimmer? I think Linda Lear wrote somewhere that Carson used the scientific names so that she could name the individuals without being sentimental.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35546240.post-80412987823620685822007-07-19T16:45:00.000-05:002007-07-19T16:45:00.000-05:00I know Scomber is the part of the species scientif...I know Scomber is the part of the species scientific name, don't know about the others.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35546240.post-84844904613122791162007-07-19T16:39:00.000-05:002007-07-19T16:39:00.000-05:00Does anyone know how Rachel Carson came up the the...Does anyone know how Rachel Carson came up the the names of Rynchops the sanderling, Scomber the mackrel and Anguilla the eel?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35546240.post-53022834605577737552007-07-19T14:58:00.000-05:002007-07-19T14:58:00.000-05:00Thanks Mark. Another reason I think the human refe...Thanks Mark. Another reason I think the human references bother me is that they draw me out of my immersion in the world Carson presents from the animal's perspective. I was just reading the chapter entitled the Harbor and it is a fasinating tale of the succession of movement of sea life, the interaction between species etc. With no people in sight, I can just pretend to be in the harbor with Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35546240.post-42046438864027953382007-07-17T17:58:00.000-05:002007-07-17T17:58:00.000-05:00I'd like to respond to Willow's initial comment. L...I'd like to respond to Willow's initial comment. Like you, Carson came to change her mind about the human impact on nature. Initially she found the oceans so vast that they dwarfed humankind's attempts at control. But in the atomic age Carson found her faith shaken and her views shifting in a direction that led her to write "Silent Spring."Mark Lytlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15851833370368983037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35546240.post-35733840479884733692007-07-17T14:25:00.000-05:002007-07-17T14:25:00.000-05:00I agree about the intricacy of her descriptions. ...I agree about the intricacy of her descriptions. I've just been reading the section on Scomber when he is really young, developing in the ocean and the various predators that prey on young fish. I almost feel like I'm there with the small fry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35546240.post-21163064639221351332007-07-17T13:38:00.000-05:002007-07-17T13:38:00.000-05:00I agree with comments about Carson's amazing abili...I agree with comments about Carson's amazing abilities to observe and report on her observations. But her imagination is also incredible. To my knowledge, she never visited the Arctic where she describes intimately the nesting birds and only ventured underwater once. Yet she describes the actions and imagines the feelings of mullet in the deep, winter sea in such a way as to make their Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35546240.post-16679706549397011302007-07-17T11:34:00.000-05:002007-07-17T11:34:00.000-05:00I sincerely believe it to be true and as you so we...I sincerely believe it to be true and as you so well put it Ms Demarco, that: "With the advance of technology giving the superior force over the natural world comes the responsibility for preserving intact the fundamental component of the natural system that allows it to sustain life over time." And, "With knowledge comes power. Power exercised without full understanding and a sense of Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35546240.post-25774245717437588692007-07-17T05:47:00.000-05:002007-07-17T05:47:00.000-05:00The image of the fishermen with their manually ope...The image of the fishermen with their manually operated sein nets as described by Rachel Carson in this wonderful excerpt pales on scale and scope against modern methods. For example, in the Pasagchak Bay off Kodiak Alaska, the seiners operate similar netsdropped to the sea bottom with weighted edges, and pulled in a circle under a school of salmon by fast small boats, attaching the net back to Patricia DeMarcohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14143970049448849591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35546240.post-51274422042204204082007-07-16T19:32:00.000-05:002007-07-16T19:32:00.000-05:00I find it amazing how detailed in her observations...I find it amazing how detailed in her observations Rachel Carson was; but on the other hand, I am not surprised, for those are traits of a good scientist which Rachel Carson most certainly was. Her note taking, documentation and/or storage of detail in her memory and experiences that went into the writing of Under the Sea-Wind is amazing to me. Rachel Carson could a take a small portion of Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35546240.post-86511610496647994392007-07-16T16:33:00.000-05:002007-07-16T16:33:00.000-05:00Thanks for the insight into how Rachel viewed the ...Thanks for the insight into how Rachel viewed the fisherman in her tale of fish migration and the challenges they face. I read the passsage you quoted, and from a 2007 perspective, all I could think of was how sad that all those fish died gasping for air, and that all the non game fish were just left for the scavengers. I'm afraid I can't see 'man' as just another predator the fish have to dealAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com