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Beginning our story with a short history of Western cosmology, science and environmentalism is in no way intended to endorse a triumphalist view of the superiority and inevitable domination of Western ways of thinking and relating to nature. The geographer Ian Morris challenges the old idea that “two and a half thousand years ago…the Greeks created a unique culture of reason, inventiveness and freedom.” He explains the current dominance of Western thinking and technology more in terms of geography. All the same, that dominance is, for the time being, a fact of life.
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- 1.
Ian Morris, Why the West Rules for Now (London: Profile, 2010) p. 14.
- 2.
Ibid, p. 28.
- 3.
Nile Green, Sufism: A Global History (Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012) p.78.
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Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Book 1, Zarathustra’s Prologue, 3.
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Lao Tzu, Tao Teh Ching tr. John C.H. Wu (Boston, Massachusetts: Shambhala, 1961), p. 99.
- 6.
Ibid, p. 17.
- 7.
Ibid, p. 95.
- 8.
Padmasiri de Silva in Allan Hunt-Badiner (ed.) Dharma Gaia: A Harvest of Essays in Buddhism and Ecology (Berkeley, California: Parallax, 1990) p. 15.
- 9.
Leonard Koren, Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets and Philosophers (Point Reyes, California: Imperfect Publishing, 1994) p. 50.
- 10.
Yajurveda 13:47.
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Fola D. Babalola, Roles of and Threats to Yoruba Traditional Beliefs in Wilderness Conservation in Southwest Nigeria (USDA Forest Service Proceedings RMRS-P-64.2011) http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs/rmrs_p064/rmrs_p064_125_129.pdf
- 12.
Ibid.
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (London: Fontana, 1995) pp. 281–2.
- 18.
Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines (London: Jonathan Cape, 1987) p. 2.
- 19.
Ibid.
- 20.
Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (London: Fontana, 1995) p. 276.
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Eyres, H. (2017). Wider Attitudes to Environment. In: Seeing Our Planet Whole: A Cultural and Ethical View of Earth Observation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40603-9_6
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