Quote on deep ecology

All of us are walking communities of bacteria

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

All of us are walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.

Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile

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Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile.

Each being in the universe is the result of 13.8 billion years of creative development

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Each being in the universe is the result of 13.8 billion years of creative development.

Earth Democracy connects the particular to the universal, the local to the global

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Earth Democracy connects the particular to the universal, the local to the global.

Every day I see or I hear something that more or less kills me with delight

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Every day I see or I hear something that more or less kills me with delight.

Gaia theory forces a planetary perspective

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Gaia theory forces a planetary perspective. It is the health of the planet that matters, not that of some individual species.

Humans are that part of the Earth that has awakened to itself

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Humans are that part of the Earth that has awakened to itself.

Humans on Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Humans on Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor.

I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t know exactly what a prayer is. / I do know how to pay attention.

I'd look for life on Mars in the composition of its atmosphere, not by crawling around looking for bugs

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I’d look for life on Mars in the composition of its atmosphere, not by crawling around looking for bugs.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

If you understand that you are made of stellar material, you understand your kinship with every other being

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

If you understand that you are made of stellar material, you understand your kinship with every other being.

Independence is a political, not a scientific term

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Independence is a political, not a scientific term.

Indigenous knowledge is sophisticated knowledge, not primitive knowledge

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Indigenous knowledge is sophisticated knowledge, not primitive knowledge.

Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it

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Instructions for living a life: / Pay attention. / Be astonished. / Tell about it.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

Life on Earth is an elaborate and intricate symbiotic phenomenon

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Life on Earth is an elaborate and intricate symbiotic phenomenon.

Philosophers and scientists have made the same mistake: they assumed the environment was fixed

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Whenever philosophers and scientists have tried to explain how life evolved, they have made the same mistake: they’ve assumed that the environment was fixed and that the organisms simply adapted to it. But that’s not how it works.

Seed is not commodity. It is the embodiment of millions of years of evolution

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Seed is not commodity. It is the embodiment of millions of years of evolution.

Symbiosis, living together in physical contact, is a concept neglected in evolution

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I think the concept of symbiosis, of living together in physical contact, is a very important concept in evolution that has been neglected.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?

Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.

The concept that the biosphere is able to regulate the climate is the Gaia hypothesis

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The concept that the biosphere is able to regulate the climate and the chemistry at a comfortable level for life is the Gaia hypothesis.

The Earth is more than just a home, it's a living system and we are part of it

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Earth is more than just a home, it’s a living system and we are part of it.

The Earth is not just our environment. The Earth is our mother

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Earth is not just our environment. The Earth is our mother.

The enclosure of the commons began with land; today it is being extended to life itself

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The enclosure of the commons began with land; today it is being extended to life itself.

The future depends on whether we can learn to see ourselves as Earth

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The future depends on whether we can learn to see ourselves as Earth.

The Gaia hypothesis is for those who like to walk or simply stand and stare

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Gaia hypothesis is for those who like to walk or simply stand and stare, to wonder about the Earth and the life it bears.

The greatest discovery of the scientific enterprise is that we live in a developing universe

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The greatest discovery of the scientific enterprise is that we live in a developing universe.

The romantic vision of biotic nature as a cooperative venture is scientifically accurate

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The romantic vision of biotic nature as a cooperative venture is far more scientifically accurate than the view of nature as violent and competitive.

The universe is not a collection of objects but a communion of subjects

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The universe is the primary sacred community, the primary revelation, the primary text.

The view of evolution as chronic bloody competition dissolves before a new view of cooperation

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The view of evolution as chronic bloody competition among individuals and species, a popular distortion of Darwin’s notion of ‘survival of the fittest,’ dissolves before a new view of continual cooperation.

The world offers itself to your imagination

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The world offers itself to your imagination.

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work

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To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet

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Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

We abide in a symbiotic world

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We abide in a symbiotic world.

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness

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We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

We are the first generation of humans to know the story of the universe

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We are the first generation of humans to know the story of the universe.

We have given Gaia a fever and soon her condition will worsen to a state like a coma

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

We have given Gaia a fever and soon her condition will worsen to a state like a coma. She has been there before and recovered, but it took more than 100,000 years.

We inter-are with the rain forests, the water table, and the atmosphere

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We inter-are with the rain forests, the water table, and the atmosphere.

When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself

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When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over.

You do not have to be good...

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

You do not have to be good. / You do not have to walk on your knees / for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. / You only have to let the soft animal of your body / love what it loves.

Quote: "We must find and develop therapies which heal our relations..." Arne Naess

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

“We must find and develop therapies which heal our relations with the widest community, that of all living beings.” —Arne Naess

"the major problems in the world.." - Gregory Bateson

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

“the major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works, and how people think” - Gregory Bateson

Please Call Me by My True Names

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

“Please call me by my true names, \ so I can hear all my cries and my laughter at once, \ so I can see that my joy and pain are one.” - Thich Nhat Hanh

Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains.

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

“Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster’s feet there are left the mountains.”

— Robinson Jeffers

Humanity is the mold to break away from, the crust to break through, the coal to break into fire, / The atom to be split.

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

“Humanity is the mold to break away from, the crust to break through, the coal to break into fire, / The atom to be split.”

— Robinson Jeffers

Hurt Hawks cannot be mended: the wild God has turned / His back on them.

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

“Hurt Hawks cannot be mended: the wild God has turned / His back on them.”

— Robinson Jeffers

I believe that if you just do your little bit without thinking of the bigness of what you stand against, if you turn to the enlargement of your own capacities, just that itself creates new potential

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

“I believe that if you just do your little bit without thinking of the bigness of what you stand against, if you turn to the enlargement of your own capacities, just that itself creates new potential.” – Vandana Shiva

I believe that the universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy.

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

“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.

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

“Integrity is wholeness, the greatest beauty is / Organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe.”

— Robinson Jeffers

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

“Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.”

— Robinson Jeffers

Organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe. Love that, not man apart from that.

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

“Organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe. Love that, not man apart from that.”

— Robinson Jeffers

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“We are the universe becoming conscious of itself” - Brian Swimme

The beauty of things was born before eyes and sufficient to itself; the heart-breaking beauty / Will remain when there is no heart to break for it.

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

“The beauty of things was born before eyes and sufficient to itself; the heart-breaking beauty / Will remain when there is no heart to break for it.”

— Robinson Jeffers

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.

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

“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 Jeffers

The poet is not an important fellow. There will be no harm done if he never gets born.

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

“The poet is not an important fellow. There will be no harm done if he never gets born.”

— Robinson Jeffers

The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me / Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

“The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me / Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.”

— Robinson Jeffers

The world's as the world is, and the animals / Re-knowing their roads. All's well.

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

“The world’s as the world is, and the animals / Re-knowing their roads. All’s well.”

— Robinson Jeffers

This coast crying out for tragedy like all beautiful places.

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

“This coast crying out for tragedy like all beautiful places.”

— Robinson Jeffers

quote-this-is-the-first-wildest-and-wisest-thing-I-know -mary-oliver

Sun, 28 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

“This is the first, wildest and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attentiveness” - Mary Oliver

A temperature rise of more than two degrees C risks altering the Earth system irreversibly.