“One thing that was especially impactful during my lifeguard career was learning, and observing, that the pesticide DDT had killed off most of California’s brown pelicans.”
“Most influential on me were those writers who were clearly grounding their ethics in evolutionary and ecological understandings, which tend to erode ideologies of human supremacy.”
“Chernobyl was the first canary’s death, signaling the system’s failure.”
“I embraced Spinoza like a lost lover from the depths of time, a philosopher who holds up a lantern to show the deserted path the West did not but could have travelled.”
“By beauty, I don’t mean fashion or art, but patterns of relations that engender life.”
“The ‘death of nature’ and the demise of beauty are co-victims of this worldview. To resuscitate the one requires the revitalization of the other.”
“As we are bearing witness today, the toxic mix of these beliefs and the industrial endlessgrowth economy, legitimized the plundering of our beautiful Earth.”
“The sign and seal of a living natural world, including ourselves as one of its plain citizens, is wonder.”
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