Ecological Identity Quotes

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

We often forget that we are nature.

We are the consciousness of the earth. We are the eyes of the earth. The voice of the earth.

There isn't a line that you can draw between the air and your body. We are the environment.

we are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature weeping. Nature speaking of nature to nature.

It is funny how we talk about nature as this separate entity when we are nature, and nature is us.

I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.

I can't be separated from nature. I am one of her faces.

I argue for a relational conception of the person as a basis for an environmental ethic that can encourage us to preserve the environment not solely on the basis of satisfying human interests and not solely because we might attribute intrinsic value to the environment, but because the environment is something with which we can potentially enter into constructive relationship, as part of what makes us who we are or transform who we are and open us up to new interests.

If you will think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else, you see that we are the earth, we are the consciousness of the earth. These are the eyes of the Earth. And this is the voice of the earth.

Having a place means that you know what a place means...what it means in a storied sense of myth, character and presence but also in an ecological sense...Integrating native consciousness with mythic consciousness

Where do I begin and end in space? I have relations to the sun and air which are just as vital parts of my existence as my heart.

As a word, ecology has been so debased by recent political usage that many people employ it to identify anything good that happens far from cities and without human interference.