deep ecology
practices for awakening and resilience in a changing world
If the Earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the Earth and its inhabitants.
Love is the fundamental energy of the universe.
The Earth is primary. Human beings are derivative.
The Great Work now, as we move into a new millennium, is to carry out the transition from a period of human devastation of the Earth to a period when humans would be present to the planet in a …
The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.
We are not going into the future, we are going into the mystery.
We are the Earth become conscious of itself.
We bear the universe in our beings as the universe bears us in its being.
We need to move from a spirituality of alienation from the natural world to a spirituality of intimacy with the natural world.
Each being in the universe is the result of 13.8 billion years of creative development.
Humans are that part of the Earth that has awakened to itself.
If you understand that you are made of stellar material, you understand your kinship with every other being.
The future depends on whether we can learn to see ourselves as Earth.
The greatest discovery of the scientific enterprise is that we live in a developing universe.
The universe is not a collection of objects but a communion of subjects.
The universe is the primary sacred community, the primary revelation, the primary text.
We are the first generation of humans to know the story of the universe.
“I believe that the universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy.” — Robinson Jeffers
“Integrity is wholeness, the greatest beauty is / Organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe. Love that, not man apart from that.” — Robinson …
“We are the universe becoming conscious of itself” - Brian Swimme
Brian Swimme is a mathematical cosmologist and cultural historian who examines the implications of modern cosmology for human meaning and purpose. Trained as a mathematician at the University of …
Thomas Berry (1914-2009) was a cultural historian, cosmologist, and self-described “geologian” who examined human-Earth relationships through the lens of both scientific cosmology and …
“To understand life, we must understand the partnerships that make it possible.” — Lynn Margulis Microcosmos (1986)