Quote: "We must find and develop therapies which heal our relations..." Arne Naess
“We must find and develop therapies which heal our relations with the widest community, that of all living beings.” —Arne Naess
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“All living beings have intrinsic value.” – Arne Naess Source: Ecology, Community and Lifestyle
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“Deep ecology asks for a radical rethinking of values, not only technology.” – Arne Naess Source: Ecology, Community and Lifestyle
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“Identification, not moralizing, often leads to beautiful actions.” – Arne Naess Source: Ecology, Community and Lifestyle
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“Intrinsic value is independent of usefulness to humans.” – Arne Naess Source: Ecology, Community and Lifestyle
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“Quality of life is not reducible to higher material standards.” – Arne Naess Source: Ecology, Community and Lifestyle
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“Self-realization means widening the self: identification with a larger Self.” – Arne Naess Source: Ecology, Community and Lifestyle
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“Self-realization often leads us to protect what we identify with.” – Arne Naess Source: Ecology, Community and Lifestyle
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“The flourishing of life requires respecting richness and diversity.” – Arne Naess Source: Ecology, Community and Lifestyle
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“The richness and diversity of life contribute to quality of life.” – Arne Naess Source: Ecology, Community and Lifestyle
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“The ultimate aims of deep ecology can be summarized in a simple imperative: maximize self-realization! In other words, maximize our potential as living beings. We need beings to awaken.” …
Profile: Arne Naess
Arne Naess was a Norwegian philosopher who coined the term “deep ecology” in 1973, fundamentally reshaping environmental thought and activism. Born in Oslo in 1912, he became …
Quote: Arne Naess; ““The smaller one comes to feel…”
“The smaller one comes to feel compared to the mountain, the nearer one comes to sharing in its greatness. I don’t know why this is so.” - Arne Naess —
Quote: Arne Naess; “Now is the time to share with all life…”
“Now is the time to share with all life on our maltreated earth by deepening our identification with all life-forms, with the ecosystems, and with Gaia, this fabulous, old planet of ours. we need the …
The Development of the Deep Ecology Process
Our Philosophy page describes Arne Naess’s call for “therapies which heal our relations with the widest community, that of all living beings”, and notes that the processes answering …
Philosophy in the Mountains: ABC radio show about Arne Naess and interview with John Seed.
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/philosophy-in-the-mountains—arne-naess/3176186 “Arne Næss, who died in January just a couple of weeks short of his ninety-seventh …
Video: The Deep Ecology Movement with Alan Drengson
Audio of an interview with Alan Drengson from Greenradio on youtube, R. Alan Drengson explains the origins and principles of the deep ecology movement, while speaking of its founder, Norwegian …
Article: Self-Realization Beyond the Human: Arne Næss and Norwegian Deep Ecology
“As if this simplicity and inaccessibility were not enough, Næss built, with his own hands, a three-by-three-meter refuge some 200 meters higher up on the crags of the Hallingskarvet massif, …
Article: The Shallow and the Deep, long-Range Ecology Movement, A Summary, by Arne Naess
“The emergence of ecologists from their former relative obscurity marks a turning point in our scientific communities. Their message, however, is twisted and misused. A shallow, but currently …
The Deep Ecology Platform
In April 1984, during the advent of Spring and John Muir’s birthday, George Sessions and Arne Næss summarized fifteen years of thinking on the principles of deep ecology while camping in Death Valley, …
Documentary: The Call of the Mountain ~ Arne Naess and the Deep Ecology Movement (full version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf3cXTAqS2M For a full transcript of the Interview with Arne Naess in this documentary visit: http://www.naturearteducation.org/R/Interviews/Naess1.htm
Book: Thinking Like a Mountain-HTML version
This post holds an HTML version of the text of the book “Thinking Like A Mountain – Towards a Council of All Beings”. Published in 1988, this seminal text by John Seed, Joanna Macy, Arne Naess and …
Book: Thinking Like a Mountain - PDF
Below you will find an embedded PDF version of the seminal book by John Seed, Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming and Arne Naess which gave rise to the “Council of All Beings” group work, later referred to as …