Dave Goulson is Professor of Biology at the University of Sussex. He has published more than 300 scientific articles on the ecology and conservation of bumblebees and other insects. His books include the Sunday Times bestsellers The Garden Jungle and A Sting in the Tale, which was also shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize and has been translated into fifteen languages. He is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, a trustee of Pesticide Action Network, and an Ambassador for the UK Wildlife Trusts.
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.
*Sunday Times*
Thoughtful, frightening and yet hugely enjoyable... This book will
make you think differently about our right of dominion over the
planet.
*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.
*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.
*The Bookseller, Book of the Month*
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