Deep ecology Quote by Fritjof Capra

Shallow ecology is anthropocentric, or human-centred. It views humans as above or outside nature, as the source of all value, and ascribes only instrumental,…

— Fritjof Capra

We often speak of "deep ecology," but this is also Deep Eco-Psychology: how the environment can remind us of, and help mend, mental and…

— Michael Tobias

I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common thread linking deep ecology and animal rights, the…

— Annie Gottlieb

If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that automatically result…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The history of cruelty inflicted in the name of morals has convinced me that the increase of identification might achieve what moralizing cannot: beautiful…

— Arne Næss

Our brains are separate and independent enough from our genes to rebel against them.. we do so in a small way everytime we use…

— Richard Dawkins

We don't know nearly enough about the complexities of Nature. If we think we can eliminate natural ecosystems and substitute prosthetic devices, i.e. clean…

— E. O. Wilson

“When the anthropologist asked the Kwakiutl for a map of their coast, they told him stories: "Here? Salmon gather. Here? Sea otter camps. Here…

— Ralph Metzner

Although I am fully convinced of the truth of the views given in this volume under the form of an abstract, I by no…

— Charles Darwin

.. the word ecology, coined by the German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel (initially as oecology) in 1866. derives from the Greek oikos, "referring…

— Warwick Fox

When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.

— Albert Einstein

Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both…

— Aristotle