...depending on where you are in life. If you're an 18-23-year-old child of the environmentalist movement (or are simply trying to discover the answers to life's deepest questions), then it will be a profound, thought-provoking read. In time, however, its message becomes overly simplistic, especially when you (and your thinking) mature, you'll discover that, while man's pride has brought about many problems, it has also brought about many great things. But then, that might be part of the point: nothing is ever as clear-cut as "civilization = evil; nature = good."
Well, it's a pretty good book...
...depending on where you are in life. If you're an 18-23-year-old child of the environmentalist movement (or are simply trying to discover the answers to life's deepest questions), then it will be a profound, thought-provoking read. In time, however, its message becomes overly simplistic, especially when you (and your thinking) mature, you'll discover that, while man's pride has brought about many problems, it has also brought about many great things. But then, that might be part of the point: nothing is ever as clear-cut as "civilization = evil; nature = good."