Deep-Ecology on deep ecology

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.

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 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.

Profile: Alan Drengson

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 and spreading deep ecology philosophy in North America.

As Professor of Philosophy at the University of Victoria, Drengson founded The Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy in 1983, providing the first academic journal dedicated to deep ecology and ecophilosophy. Through decades of editorial work, he created space for diverse voices exploring relationships between philosophy, ecology, and spiritual practice.

Profile: Fritjof Capra

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Fritjof Capra (born 1939) is an Austrian-born American physicist and systems theorist. His work examines connections between physics, biology, systems theory, and ecological philosophy.

Born in Vienna, Capra earned his PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Vienna in 1966. He conducted research in particle physics at the University of Paris (1966-1968), University of California Santa Cruz (1968-1970), Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (1970), Imperial College London (1971-1974), and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (1975-1988).

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

Profile: Gary Snyder

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

Gary Snyder (born 1930) is an American poet, Zen Buddhist practitioner, and ecological philosopher whose work integrates Beat poetry, Buddhism, and bioregionalism. His collection Turtle Island received the Pulitzer Prize in 1975.

Snyder developed his ecological perspective through direct experience - working as fire lookout in the North Cascades, studying anthropology at Reed College, and living in backcountry environments. Fictionalized as Japhy Ryder in Jack Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums, he participated in the San Francisco Renaissance and Beat movement through poetry readings organized with Allen Ginsberg.

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

Profile: Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) was an Austrian-German poet whose work explored nature, solitude, and human existence. Writing in the early 20th century, Rilke articulated a sense of intimacy with the natural world that examined relationships between self and environment.

Rilke’s work depicts trees, animals, flowers, and mountains not as objects but as presences with whom one shares existence. His concept of “world inner space” (Weltinnenraum) suggested that knowledge comes from allowing the world to arise within consciousness through deep attention and openness. This phenomenological approach to nature proposed a participatory relationship between human awareness and the natural world.

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

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