STANDING amid the tan, excited post-Christmas crowd at the Southwest Florida Regional Airport, Rabbit Angstrom has a funny sudden feeling that what he has come to meet, what's floating in unseen about to land, is not his son Nelson and daughter-in-law Pru and their two children but something more ominous and intimately his: his own death, shaped vaguely like an airplane.

《兔子休息了》从侧面描写美国作为一个“后自然”(postnatural)国家，其大地所拥有的资源差不多已被消耗一空了。在小说的结尾，已五十五岁的主人公“兔子”哈利·安斯特罗姆眺望佛罗里达州一处疗养地的风景时，他透过那天堂般的外表，看到其中的衰败和污染。在这些“危险的风景” (riskscape，美国当代地理学家苏珊·卡特杜撰了这一词，来形容空气中漂浮的毒气对自然风景的侵害)中，哈利看到成排的棕榈树由于遭受干旱而枯死，  看到蓝色的天空被“喷气飞机喷出的烟雾所污染”，看到“紫外线正把人体的扁平细胞烤成癌细胞”，看到“空气中弥漫的烟雾使人难以呼吸”。

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Rabbit basks above that old remembered world, rich, at rest.

‑Rabbit Is Rich

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

‑life and Times of Frederick Douglass

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