Profile: Alan Drengson
Alan Drengson (1934-2022) was a Canadian philosopher and educator who served as close collaborator with Arne Naess and founding editor of The Trumpeter journal, becoming a key voice in articulating …
Ecosophy
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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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“Self-realization means widening the self: identification with a larger Self.” – 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.” …
Quote: John Seed; "Deep ecology looks at the spiritual disease..."
“Deep ecology looks at the spiritual disease that underlies the environmental crisis: the illusion of separation between humans and the rest of the natural world… In order to nourish our …
Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy
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; “Care flows naturally if the self is widened…”
“Care flows naturally if the self is widened and deepened so that protection of free nature is felt and conceived of as protection of our very selves.” - Arne Naess —
Quote: Joanna Macy; "All life is interdependent; we cannot survive without the web of relationships that sustain us."
“All life is interdependent; we cannot survive without the web of relationships that sustain us.” – Joanna Macy Source: Coming Back to Life, 1998
Article: “What is Deep Ecology Philosophy” at Treehugger.com
Back in 2021, this helpful article about deep ecology was published on treehugger.com. It in includes an overview of the history of the movement, as well as a concise summary of criticisms that Deep …
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, …
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