2022年3月8日

在她的新书《金伯利Ridley双美丽的古董插图和文章细节的角色不同的现象在自然界中,从小型到大型生物。里德利,散文家和科学作家,决定庆祝大自然最杰出的设计师和建设者“自然野生设计:架构师”。这本书有八章用不同寻常的信息从海狸到真菌鸟类。挤满了插图,油画和素描由自然历史学家从17到20世纪。这些允许眼睛专注于自然世界的重要特性,创造一种自然世界连接的内部运作。采访中ZME科学,里德利说,她写了本书作为自然界的情书,邀请读者用一套全新的眼光看待自然,重燃他们的惊奇感。周围有无数奇迹,里德利说,但是当我们无法通知他们,我们变得远离生命世界广告图片来源:金伯利Ridley”我们经常混淆与天真好奇,但我想培养一种怀疑是一个重要的生存技能,”里德利告诉ZME科学。“我写了野生设计说话的惊奇感,我觉得我每天散步。我想轻轻地把读者的手,向他们展示大自然的华丽和杰出的设计在我们周围。“从错综复杂的编织金莺的巢和有翼的优雅的枫树种子巧妙的“案例”石蛾的幼虫,精心构造从石子和沙子,有华丽的和杰出的设计在我们周围,里德利解释道。 “The more I thought about design in nature, the more curious I became,” she added. Get more science news like this... Join the ZME newsletter for amazing science news, features, and exclusive scoops. More than 40,000 subscribers can't be wrong. Daily Leave this field empty if you're human: The idea of the book originated from Ridley’s own curiosity, as she started to come up with questions regarding nature’s architects. She discovered many design wonders that are right under our noses. She wrote most of the book in her own backyard in Maine. “I set up a table, chair, and my laptop and got to work,” she says. The role of illustrations Ridley said she discussed several illustration possibilities with her editor, but that from early on she wanted to use natural history illustrations. This is for several reasons. First, she wanted Wild Design to feel like a miniature cabinet of illustrations. Second, because the illustrations are wonders themselves, created by hand and sometimes in the field ADVERTISEMENT Image credit: Kimberley Ridley “I wanted the visual narrative of this book to present a glimpse of the visual expression in the heyday of natural history exploration and discovery. These amazing works were central to scientific discovery, and introduced the public to the wonders of the living world,” Ridley told ZME Science. “I want this book to invite readers to slow down and observe.” Ridley said creating this book opened her eyes wider and deepened her sense of wonder for the wild world around us. The book has helped her appreciate more deeply the interconnectedness of all life. Now, on her hikes along the rocky coast where she lives, she has a new appreciation of geology and is always looking for bird nests and admiring fungi. Her own new experiences with nature are what she hopes happens with everyone who reads the book, which invites them to explore nature’s beauty, strangeness, and mystery in their own back yards or parks. Nature is a living library, Ridley concludes, a repository of knowledge that has accumulated through billions of years through evolution. “Nature’s wild designers offer how-to manuals and encyclopedias for helping to solve human design challenges without creating pollution or trashing the neighborhood. So, I hope this small book inspires awareness on every level,” she added.