中国的读书人没有不熟悉培根的知识真言的。他曾经说,知识能塑造人的性格。读史使人明智,读诗使人聪慧,演算使人精密,哲理使人深刻,伦理学使人有修养,逻辑修辞使人善辩。不过,培根毕竟是17世纪的人,如果他生活在今天,一定不会漏掉环境科学之于一种健康的、亲近自然的人生的功用。好在我们这个时代不仅有培根一样的智者,还有珍·古道尔(Jane Goodall)这样杰出的自然学家,我们可以幸运地读到 Chinese scholar is not unfamiliar with Bacon’s knowledge of the truth. He once said that knowledge shapes one’s character. Reading history makes people wise, reading poems make people smart, calculation makes people precise, philosophy is profound, ethics makes people self-cultivation, logical rhetoric eloquently. However, after all, Bacon was a 17th-century man who, if he lived today, will not miss the function of environmental science in a healthy, near-natural life. Fortunately, not only are we wise backers like Bacon, but also outstanding naturalists such as Jane Goodall, and we are fortunate enough to read