我与熊猫的诗意浪漫

The Hidden Poetry of a Decade at the Chengdu Panda Base

“无法用言语来形容。是诗意!他们本应该派一位诗人来的。太美了,太美了……我根本没有想到。”这句话出自电影《超时空接触》(1997年)。该电影改编自天文学家卡尔·萨根的一本书。主人公是一位年轻的科学家,通过星际虫洞,她目睹了宇宙的壮丽。这一刻,她无言以对,只能轻声对着录音设备喃喃自语。我讲这句话略显夸张,但我在成都大熊猫繁育研究基地工作的11年里,这句话多次在我脑海中响起。我曾在大学学习爵士乐演奏,通过音乐表达自己。现在我真后悔没有参加写作课程,因为无论我输入怎样的文字都无法表达我在四川与大熊猫一起的日子。

“No words to describe it.Poetry!They should have sent a poet.So beautiful.So beautiful...I had no idea.”This quote is from a scene in the movie Contact(1997),based off the book written by the astronomer Carl Sagan,where the protagonist,a young scientist,passes through an interstellar wormhole and witnesses the absolute splendor of the universe.At this moment,she is speechless and is barely able to murmur into her recording equipment.I am being a bit dramatic when I say this,but this quote has come to mind more than once during my 11 years working at the Chengdu Panda Base.You see,as an undergrad in college,I studied jazz performance and learned to express myself through music,now I truly regret that I didn’t take any writing classes,as whatever I type fails to do justice for what I have experienced during my years working with pandas in Sichuan Province.