Ed Grylls graced us, the couple of times when he could be bothered to tear himself from his Fijian seven-star luxpad – don't worry lawyers, I've got away with this before – with shouty warnings about scorpions and more silent warnings about the inability to count one's blessings and money.
Perhaps it was the disenchantment of the world that Rachel Carson was expressing when she wrote Silent Spring, warning that uncontrolled pesticide use would kill many animals, especially the birds whose singing voices would resound throughout springtime.
Rachel Carson's more widely heeded warning, "Silent Spring," was published in 1962.
Because it was silent, offering no warning, there was no defence against it.
TEL AVIV - At 11 50 on Monday morning a scrum of passengers jockeying to board United Airlines Flight 85 from Tel Aviv to Newark fell silent when a warning echoed in Hebrew and Arabic through Ben Gurion Airport.
At 11 50 on Monday morning a scrum of passengers jockeying to board United Airlines Flight 85 from Tel Aviv to Newark fell silent when a warning echoed in Hebrew and Arabic through Ben Gurion Airport.
When Reagan rejigged the tax codes to favor the wealthy, most evangelicals fell silent, despite the biblical warnings against the corruptions of wealth and injunctions to care for the indigent.
I have no doubt that if an accused were interrogated in police custody without receiving the Miranda warnings and remained silent, that silence would be inadmissible despite the lack of warnings.
Barnett, author of "Young Delinquents" (Methuen, 1913) warning readers that silent films present children with "a direct incentive to crime, demonstrating, for instance, how a theft could be perpetrated".
