另一個角度拍得更清楚,士商路整排樹一刀鋸斷,實在是會吐血,蔣萬安你出來講清楚!!。我們熱愛樹木, “我們想保護我們所擁有的。” 《樹木與藝術》(Des Arbres et Des Arts),該片提出樹木應該擁有法律權利 。讀《種樹的人"The Man Who Planted Trees" by Giono》。"醫生說,我已是絕症,最多還有六個月,或許更短......我沒有解釋診斷結果——這不是為了博取原諒或憐憫,而是為了在剩下的時間裡盡可能播下希望的種子。....."。Markings by Hammarskjöld: A Life·(道格·哈馬紹)『道しるべ』/ Who Did It? / 許達然《苦悶的英雄》
另一個角度拍得更清楚,士商路整排樹一刀鋸斷,實在是會吐血,蔣萬安你出來講清楚!!
The notion that trees could have legal rights is alien to many and an affront to some, which is why the town’s move has generated international headlines and anger. Credit...Hubert Hayaud for The New York Times
“If we live in Terrasse-Vaudreuil, it’s because we love trees,” said Sylvie Trépanier, a member of the town’s environmental committee, which drove the resolution. “We want to keep what we have.”
去年春天,約60位居民觀看了魁北克電影製作人安德烈·德羅謝爾執導的紀錄片《樹木與藝術》(Des Arbres et Des Arts),該片提出樹木應該擁有法律權利。 「我們覺得我們真的需要做點什麼,」特雷帕尼耶女士說。
Last spring, about 60 residents attended a screening of “Des Arbres et Des Arts,” or “The Trees and the Arts,” a documentary by the Quebec filmmaker André Desrochers that proposes trees should receive legal rights. “We decided we really need to do something,” Ms. Trépanier said.
The town’s environmental committee wrote a When councilors adopted the resolution unanimously, Mayor Michel Bourdeau declared, “Today, we affirm that trees are not merely a backdrop in our community. They are indispensable allies for our health, our climate resilience, and our quality of life.”
Markings by Hammarskjöld: A Life·(道格·哈馬紹)『道しるべ』/ Who Did It? / 許達然《苦悶的英雄》
I found "The Man Who Planted Trees" three days after the diagnosis. Terminal, they said. Six months, maybe less. I hurled books across my hospital room, cursing the universe for its cruelty, until a thin volume slipped from the pile, landing open-faced on the sterile floor. A nurse picked it up, glanced at the first page, and against protocol, left it on my bedside table instead of reshelving it.
"You might need this one," she whispered.
She was right. But not for the reasons either of us could have imagined.
Let me tell you about resurrection.
Not the biblical kind—though what Jean Giono created in his slender 4,000-word masterpiece borders on the miraculous—but the kind that begins with dirt under fingernails and an obstinate refusal to accept desolation as the final word.
Most readers encounter "The Man Who Planted Trees" as ecological parable or gentle inspiration. They admire its message of environmental stewardship, nod appreciatively at its humanistic optimism, perhaps feel momentarily better about our species' potential. Then they return it to the shelf and continue their lives fundamentally unchanged.
I couldn't return it to the shelf. Because Elzéard Bouffier wouldn't let me go.
The story's premise is deceptively simple: In 1913, a young hiker traverses the barren, wind-scoured highlands of Provence, a landscape so bleak it drives inhabitants to madness or exodus. There he encounters a silent shepherd methodically planting oak trees—one hundred perfect acorns daily, year after year, asking nothing in return. The narrator returns after both world wars to discover this solitary man's quiet, relentless labor has miraculously transformed thousands of acres of wasteland into a vibrant, water-rich forest ecosystem where communities once again thrive.
A simple summary that betrays nothing of the story's devastating power.
I began reading in that antiseptic hospital room, my body already betraying me at thirty-six, the scan results still burning in my mind. By page three, something shifted. Giono's sparse prose—devoid of sentimentality yet pulsing with life—bypassed my intellectual defenses and struck directly at something primal within me.
His description of that initial landscape—"everything was barren and colorless, a desert without even the drama of traditional deserts"—mirrored my interior state with such precision that I gasped audibly. The nurse looked up, concerned, but I waved her away, already descending deeper into Giono's world.
When the narrator first meets Bouffier, the shepherd is described with haunting simplicity: "His beard was black, and his shoulders slightly hunched, but his figure was tall and straight, more suggestive of an athlete than an old man." Something in this portrait of contained power, of vitality harnessed for purpose rather than display, seized me. I read the entire story without moving, the hospital machinery beeping in counterpoint to my racing heart.
That night, I dreamed of acorns—hundreds of them, cool and smooth in my palms.
What makes "The Man Who Planted Trees" truly dangerous isn't its ecological message but its fundamental challenge to our understanding of time, purpose, and what constitutes a meaningful life.
Bouffier plants trees he will never sit beneath. He creates forests without recognition or reward. He persists through two world wars, through personal tragedy, through complete societal collapse and reconstruction, doing exactly one thing: planting perfectly selected seeds in precisely the right places, then letting nature and time do what they will.
This radical patience—this refusal of instant gratification, external validation, or even measurable short-term progress—represents a direct assault on everything our culture holds sacred. Bouffier's calm, methodical labor exposes the poverty of our addictions to immediacy, recognition, and tangible results.
And yet, the miracle happens. The wasteland transforms. Life returns. Not through dramatic intervention or technological salvation, but through one man's stubborn, daily choice to believe in a future he personally will barely glimpse.
By day three in the hospital, something unprecedented occurred. I found myself examining my own wasteland with different eyes. What if my diagnosis wasn't an ending but a clarification? What if the time I had—whether six months or six years—could be measured not in duration but in seeds planted?
I began making calls. Family members I'd avoided for decades. Former colleagues I'd betrayed climbing corporate ladders. My estranged son, now eighteen, who'd stopped taking my calls five years earlier.
Many rejected my overtures. Some responded with suspicious caution. A few engaged more openly. I didn't explain the diagnosis—this wasn't about extracting forgiveness or pity. It was about planting whatever seeds I could in the time remaining.
I started volunteering at a youth center near my apartment, teaching chess to kids with life circumstances far more challe
《苦悶的英雄》(1964年。 收入《遠方》1978,pp.113-118和《許達然散文精選集》2011,pp.32-36;前書有出處注而無年份,後書無注而標寫作年份。我看了1978年的書才注意英譯者之一為名詩人 W. H. Auden)
Markings
Hammarskjöld, D. (1963) Albert Bonniers Förlag
Dag Hammarskjöld himself describes Markings as “the only true ‘profile’ that can be drawn”. Markings consists of short diary-like notes, prose and haiku poems. The texts are in the same order and form as Hammarskjöld himself left them. Notes and explanations can be found in the end of the book. The dating begins in 1925 and the last entry was written a few weeks before his death. Markings is not a book that you can rush through, since each paragraph requires reflection. Markings is a true classic. Since its discovery in 1963 it has been translated into a number of different languages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dag_Hammarskj%C3%B6ld Former Secretary-General
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 10 April 1953 until 18 September 1961 when he met his death in a plane accident while on a peace mission in the Congo. He was born on 29 July 1905 in Jonkoping in south-central Sweden. The fourth son of Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, Prime Minister of Sweden during the years of World War I, and his wife Agnes, M.C. (b. Almquist), he was brought up in the university town of Uppsala where his father resided as Governor of the county of Uppland.
美國人查爾斯•M•索撒爾(Charles M. Southall)在1961年為美國國家安全局(NSA)在塞浦路斯的監聽站工作。那時他還是個年輕的小伙子。索撒爾回憶道,飛機失事那天夜裡,他聽到了一段實時錄音,錄音中,一名飛行員報告擊落了哈馬舍爾德的飛機。索撒爾認為美國中央情報局(CIA)與此事有牽連。他對威廉斯說:“如果CIA沒有下令謀殺哈馬舍爾德,那他們至少為凶手付了錢。”恩多拉機場官員的表現也十分可疑。哈馬舍爾德的飛機向恩多拉機場請求降落後不久就消失了。英國高級專員奧爾波特勳爵(Lord Alport)說,他覺得飛機肯定是“飛去別的地方了”,然後就關閉了機場。在有飛機突然失踪時,這種反應太不正常了。次日,搜查活動很晚才開始。哈馬舍爾德的飛機失踪15個小時後,官方才宣布找到飛機的殘骸,而飛機的殘骸距離恩多拉機場不過8英里。但威廉斯發現了一些證據,證明在官方宣布找到失事飛機殘骸幾個小時之前,事故現場就已經被發現。嫌犯可以利用這段時間重新佈置事故現場,甚至槍殺哈馬舍爾德——假如他沒有在墜機事故中喪生的話。事故後攝於醫院的一張哈馬舍爾德的照片顯示,他的額頭上有一個明顯的白點。戈德斯通說:“那有可能是一個彈孔。”的確,奧爾波特在1993年的一份備忘錄中有一句話格外引人注目,他寫道,哈馬舍爾德“在墜機後不久身亡”。哈馬舍爾德是被謀殺的。只是不清楚兇手是誰。甚至可能同時有兩撥人在策劃謀殺他。哈馬舍爾德有許多敵人,其中不乏狠毒之徒。戈德斯通1961年時在約翰內斯堡。他回憶道,哈馬舍爾德去世的消息傳出後,南非許多白人興高采烈。在當時的中部非洲,各種骯髒的故事輪番上演。比如說,比利時後來承認,曾參與1961年1月暗殺剛果總理帕特里斯•盧蒙巴(Patrice Lumumba)的行動。假如聯合國重新調查此事,可能會發現一些令人尷尬的事實。即便羅得西亞人在英國不知情的情況下謀殺了哈馬舍爾德,英國也脫不開干係,因為英國負責中非聯邦的外交政策。如果美國的情報機構也受到此事牽連,那就更尷尬了。戈德斯通告誡稱,我們很可能永遠都沒法肯定兇手到底是誰。他說:“這是個概率問題,而非不容置疑的事情。”但幾乎可以肯定,調查會有所發現。譯者/吳蔚
UN Photo/FS/gf Dag Hammarskjöld (right) and Martin Buber, Jerusalem, January 2, 1959
When Dag Hammarskjöld’s body was recovered from the crash site in Ndola, Zambia, where the Albertina, his chartered DC-6, went down on the night of September 18, 1961, he was lying on his back, propped up against an ant hill, immaculately dressed as always, in neatly pressed trousers and a white shirt with cuff links. His left hand was clutching some leaves and twigs, leaving rescuers to think he might have survived for a time after being thrown clear of the wreckage. Searchers also retrieved his briefcase. Inside were a copy of the New Testament, a German edition of poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, a novel by the French writer Jean Giono, and copies of the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber’s I and Thou in German and English. Folded into his wallet were some copies of American newspaper cartoons mocking him, together with a scrap of paper with the first verses of “Be-Bop-a-Lula” by Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps. Searchers also recovered some sheets of yellow lined legal paper filled with his minute, neat—some called it Japanese—handwriting. This enabled investigators to conclude that in flight he had been working on a translation of Buber’s I and Thou. There is a photograph of the Jewish prophet and the spry Swede taken together in Jerusalem in 1958. Hammarskjöld liked quoting Buber’s apodictic remark: “The only reply to distrust is candor.” In a jolting aircraft traveling through the night sky over the African jungle, the secretary-general devoted his final moments alive to turning Buber’s difficult thoughts into English:
This is the exalted melancholy of our fate that every Thou in our world must become an It.
Any reckoning with Dag Hammarskjöld’s life has to begin in Ndola. Clues to his elusive inner life were strewn across the crash site and the crash itself has never been conclusively explained. His colleague and first biographer, Brian Urquhart, blamed the crash on pilot error and dismissed the conspiracy theories that had sprung up around his death, but the new biography by Roger Lipsey gives considerable attention to the possibility that he was murdered. Zambian charcoal burners working in the forest near the airport that night, and interviewed by a succession of investigators in the years since, have always claimed they saw another plane fire at Hammarskjöld’s aircraft before it plunged to earth. In 2011, a British scholar, Susan Williams, reignited the debate over his death in a book entitled Who Killed Hammarskjöld?1 On the basis of extensive new forensic and archival research, she speculated that the mystery plane might have been a Belgian fighter aircraft working for the Katangese rebels. Hammarskjöld had plenty of enemies: white racist Rhodesians opposed to his support of African liberation; Belgian mining interests aligned with the breakaway Congolese province of Katanga that the UN was trying to bring to heel; the CIA and the KGB, each battling …
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