UNDERSTANDING ECOSOPHY: QUOTES AND INSPIRED HAIKU
ECOSOPHY QUOTES
- By an ecosophy I mean a philosophy of ecological harmony or equilibrium. A philosophy as a kind of sofia (or) wisdom, is openly normative, it contains both norms, rules, postulates, value priority announcements and hypotheses concerning the state of affairs in our universe. Wisdom is policy wisdom, prescription, not only scientific description and prediction. The details of an ecosophy will show many variations due to significant differences concerning not only the ‘facts’ of pollution, resources, population, etc. but also value priorities.~ Arne Naess
- Much more than a simple ecology, ecosophy is a wisdom-spirituality of the earth. ‘The new balance’ is not so much between man and Earth, but between matter and spirit, between spatio-temporality and consciousness. Ecosophy is not simply a ‘science of the earth’ (ecology) and even ‘wisdom on earth,’ but the ‘wisdom of the earth itself’ that occurs when a man knows how to listen with love. ~Raimon Pannikar
- Quality of life is here considered to be something incompatible with artificial, material standards above that necessary for the satisfaction of fundamental needs, and secondly, that ecological considerations are to be regarded as preconditions for life quality, therefore not outside human responsibility. ~ Arne Næss
Ancient-n-contemporary
Past, present, future
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Delinked learning
Makes man the worst living thing
Razing own habitat
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Humans have to be
Polite-n-kind beings in cosmos
One with life support
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Prop ecosophy
Blend science-n-spirituality
To sustain, conserve
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Brace ecosophy
For sustainability
Hurt never nature!
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