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Conserv Biol. 2020 Dec;34(6):1426-1432. doi: 10.1111/cobi.13634.
Michael Soulé is best known for his scientific contributions and central role in founding the Society for Conservation Biology and its flagship journal. Less well known are his childhood experiences, his affinity for Zen Buddhism and Arne Naess' deep ecology philosophy, and his contributions as an environmental activist to efforts to protect biodiversity and rewild ecosystems. Also less well known is the extent to which he was an interdisciplinary environmental studies scholar, struggling to understand what promotes and hinders proenvironmental behaviors. In this regard, his life and that of many other conservation scientists provide important clues, but no easy answers. By attempting to integrate the humanities, with its quest for a meaningful and fulfilling human existence, with naturalistic nature spirituality and ecocentric values, as well as the social and natural sciences, Soulé sought to solve the riddle as to why human beings seemed unable to understand, slow, and halt negative anthropogenic environmental change. He thus modeled what interdisciplinary environmental studies is at its best. Those advocating the conservation of biological diversity have much to learn from Michael Soulé, not only from his scientific findings but also from his way of seeing, the questions he asked, and his love of the living world.
迈克尔·索雷（Michael Soulé）最为人知的是他在创立保护生物学学会及其旗舰期刊方面的科学贡献和核心作用。鲜为人知的是他的童年经历、他对禅宗佛教和阿恩·纳斯（Arne Naess）的深层生态学哲学的亲和力，以及他作为一名环境活动家为保护生物多样性和重新引入生态系统所做的贡献。同样鲜为人知的是他在多大程度上是一位跨学科的环境研究学者，努力理解是什么促进和阻碍了有利于环境的行为。在这方面，他的生活和许多其他保护科学家的生活提供了重要的线索，但没有简单的答案。通过试图将人文科学与对有意义和充实的人类存在的追求，与自然主义的自然精神和生态中心价值观，以及社会和自然科学相结合，索雷试图解开人类似乎无法理解、减缓和阻止负面人为环境变化的谜团。因此，他为跨学科环境研究树立了一个很好的榜样。那些倡导保护生物多样性的人可以从迈克尔·索雷（Michael Soulé）那里学到很多东西，不仅是从他的科学发现，还有他的观察方式、他提出的问题以及他对生命世界的热爱。
