Category: Quote of the Week

Week ending 15 March—Lorraine Shannon

Paddy Woodworth, Our Once and Future Planet, University of Chicago Press, 2013. Remember: “… first that the natural world is considerably more resilient than I had thought, and that damaged and degraded ecosystems can rebuild a great deal of their complex webs of species, communities and ecological processes, if we give them half a chance [...]

Quote for Week Ending 8 March 2019—Lorraine Shannon

Our Once and Future Planet, Paddy Woodworth, University of Chicago Press, 2013. Our Once and Future Planet explores the area of environmental experimentation and innovation known as ecological restoration. This is the practice of attempting to fix disruptions to the natural world caused by centuries of human activity. Woodworth provides examples from around the globe where [...]

Quotes for Rest of February 2019—Lorraine Shannon

Ecopsychology: Restoring the earth, healing the mind, edited by Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes and Allen D. Kanner, Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, 1995. Mary Catherine Bateson: “The self does not stop at the skin nor even with the circle of human relationships but is interwoven with the lives of trees and animals and soil; [...]

Quote of the Week 19 February 2019—Lorraine Shannon

“What we are looking at is nothing less than an environmental revolution, an economic and social transformation that ranks with the agricultural and industrial revolutions. … The environmental revolution will be driven primarily by the restructuring of the global economy so that this economy does not destroy its natural support systems.” —Lester R. Brown, ‘Ecopsychology [...]