deep ecology
practices for awakening and resilience in a changing world
Deep ecology is not just a pragmatic, short-term social movement. It attempts to question and present alternatives to conventional ways of thinking in the modern West.
The environmental/ecology movement has been a response to the awareness by many people that something is drastically wrong, out of balance in our contemporary culture.
The work of many ecologists has encouraged the adoption of an ecological consciousness, changing the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land community to plain member and citizen of it.
This book is an attempt at codifying a scattered body of ecological insight into a philosophy that places human beings on an absolutely equal footing with all other creatures on the planet.
We may not need a new ecological philosophy, but need to reawaken something very old, to reawaken our understanding of Earth wisdom.
We need to accept the invitation to the dance - the dance of unity of humans, plants, animals, the Earth. We need to cultivate an ecological consciousness.
Bill Devall (1938-2009) was an American sociologist who co-authored Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered (1985) with George Sessions. The book introduced deep ecology philosophy to North …