https://www.deepecology.net/tags/norway/Recent content in Norway on deep ecologyHugoen-auThu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.deepecology.net/posts/profiles/arne-naess/Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.deepecology.net/posts/profiles/arne-naess/<p><img src="https://www.deepecology.net/images/profile_image_arne_naess.jpg" alt="Arne Naess portrait photograph" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </p> <p>Arne Naess was a Norwegian philosopher who coined the term &ldquo;deep ecology&rdquo; in 1973, fundamentally reshaping environmental thought and activism. Born in Oslo in 1912, he became Norway&rsquo;s youngest professor at age 27 and would spend seven decades developing a philosophy that challenged humanity&rsquo;s relationship with the natural world.</p> <p>In 1937, Naess built a small mountain hut called Tvergastein at 1,500 meters above sea level in the mountains of central Norway. This austere retreat became the birthplace of his most influential ideas. There, surrounded by stone and sky, he developed what he called &ldquo;Ecosophy T&rdquo; - a personal ecological philosophy that integrated insights from Spinoza, Gandhi, and Buddhist thought with his direct experience of nature&rsquo;s grandeur.</p>https://www.deepecology.net/posts/articles/article-self-realization-beyond-the-human-naess/Fri, 22 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://www.deepecology.net/posts/articles/article-self-realization-beyond-the-human-naess/<p>&ldquo;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, which he dubbed “Skarveredet” (roughly meaning “a nest” in a mountain “notch”). By his own admission, this bivouac-like sanctuary gave him “‘the feelings of being on the very brink of the abyss’ and ‘of a raven perched on the cliff for long periods’”</p>