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U kunt dit zien door op het plaatje te klikken Het is hoogzomer. De hommels en de bijen hebben een goede tijd in de biologische tuin.. In de natuurlijke tuin is het kweken van groente niet de hoofdzaak. Een rijk insectenleven is ook een beloning voor de tuinder. . (link naar youtube, opname biologisch op de Jachthuislaan). Het hommelfestival van deze zomer dankt zijn bestaan aan; Wilde Marjolein, Lavendel, Kaasjeskruid en Phacaelia. U krijgt ook zo'n festival met bijvoorbeeld de Buddleja. This Christmas weekend I learned a new word. The word was ''crop dusting''.  I saw the Hitchcock movie North by Northwest. That movie came out in 1959. In 1962 a book was published. David Attenborough said about that book that it was to scientists second in influence only to Darwin's ''On the Origin of Species''. The book was called “Silent Spring''. The author was Rachel Carson. She started to study the health hazards and impact of the wide use of insecticides, such as DDT. She was driven to writing the book by a letter written in January 1958 by Carson's friend, Olga Owens Huckins, to The Boston Herald, describing the death of birds around her property in Duxbury, Massachusetts resulting from the aerial spraying of DDT to kill mosquitoes, a copy of which Huckins sent to Carson. I'm sure some of this was meant to come through in the movie by Hitchcock when he shot the scenes in the desolated empty landscape. ''Till there was you'' was recorded in 1957, sung by Sue Raney.
Watch the famous scene from the movie North by Northwest with Cary Grant.
Set in a desolate landscape it looks like it it will be a ''Silent Spring''....
Klik op de poster met het silhouet van Alfred Hitchcock.