Michael Tobias
Conservationism has not addressed such nebulous matters as 'the love of nature,' but rather has sought to protect mankind's resources, his God-given oil shale, abundant timber, and teeming continental shelves. Deep Ecology (Introduction),1988.
Michael Tobias obtained his Ph. D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and was an assistant professor of Environmental Affairs and the Humanities at Dartmouth College. He has written and edited a number of books including The Mountain Spirit, Deva, and The Mountain People. He has also written material for feature films and TV programming.
What John Muir took to be spiritual inviolability. later conservationists interpreted to mean harvestable. Ibid.
Deep Ecology concerns those personal moods, values, aesthetic and philosophical convictions which serve no necessarily utilitarian, nor rational end. Ibid.
{The} technological and conceptual tendency of civilization has served to isolate our species from all others, save perhaps for certain rodents, insect scavengers, French poodles, Siamese cats, horses, spider plants, and marigolds. Ibid.
The biosphere has happily managed to articulate through us and yet we tempt her with catastrophe. This paradox is . . . at the heart of deep ecology. Ibid.
The word nature comes from nasci, the feminine word meaning to be born. Ibid.
The human heart - like poetry - will always reside locally. "Humanity and Radical Will: Reflections from the Island of Life," Deep Ecology, 1988.
When science delves deeply and lonesomely into nature for a solution, it begins to look like poetry, its formulations hailed as "elegant." These two spectra, poetry and science, are addled flirts. Between them is the human experience. Ibid.
Nature provides the beginning and end of all substance, out of which we are formed, wrestle, hope, Ibid.
The Chinese poets warned that until we learn the language of sea gulls we will never learn the language of ourselves. Ibid.
Life could not get enough sex once the idea caught on. Ibid.