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I
think that simplicity is a likely venue for capital T. Truth. I'm inclined to
believe that Truth lies closer to the bone. Yet the greater Truth of this planet
is complexity. Neither Simplification nor Complication serve Truth and Beauty
well. I think of simplicity as akin to Essence. What's the simplest, frugallest,
gracefullest means to a given purpose.
the
busier and thingier my life gets, the more my understanding - in the sense of
compassion as well as that of knowledge - is diminished.
Place
is a rich and complex reality and the more nature is apparent in place, the more
distinct the influence.
...the
tenets of deep ecology are part of human consciousness by dint of the fact that
we evolved, co-evolved with entire biotic communities.
I'd like to think that the tenets of deep ecology are part of human consciousness
by dint of the fact that we evolved, co-evolved with entire biotic communities.
My hope would be that the philosophy of deep ecology, variously expressed or experienced,
might strike resonant chords, or maybe send a thrill of recognition up and down
one's spinal cord. The dominant culture is utterly antithetical to deep ecology,
and planetary ecosystems are now so distorted, for the most part, that deep ecology's
ground of being is threatened, and to think about the world in a deep ecological
mode is threatening. Threatening, in a sense, to the thinker because the moral
implications are deeply unsettling, and threatening to the anthropocentric world
view.
"Ecological
restoration, allied with the creation of ecosystem-scale wilderness reserves,
represents the main hope that the organic quality of wildness may someday be resurrected
in human souls and in all life-places on planet Earth."
Environmentalists
have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated
as it is some ninety-three million miles away.
Restoration
ecology is experimental science, a science of love and altruism. In its attempts
to reverse the processes of ecosystem degradation it runs exactly counter to the
market system, to land speculation, to the whole cultural attitude of regarding
the Earth as commodity rather than community. It is a soft-souled science.
