“The standpoint of mastery sees the other as radically separate and inferior, the background to the self as foreground.”

“I realized I was prey. I was a meal for a crocodile in the most ancient sense.”

— Val Plumwood, 'Being Prey'

“Rationalism is the key to the connected oppressions of women and nature in the West.”

— Val Plumwood, 'Nature, Self, and Gender'

“The project is changing the master story, the background narrative of our culture.”

— Val Plumwood, 'Feminism and the Mastery of Nature'

“Until we can acknowledge our dependency on nature, we cannot develop a truly sustainable culture.”

— Val Plumwood, 'Environmental Culture'

“We need to recognize ourselves as ecological beings who are thoroughly enmeshed in a larger world of …”

— Val Plumwood, 'Environmental Culture'