Environmental Philosophy

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Environmental Philosophy

Many authors throughout history have expressed their, or society’s, yearning towards a simpler life: a life without responsibilities or obligations, a life without worry or regret. Sigurd Olson expresses such a yearning in his essay Contemplation, where through reading Lao Tzu, he had discovered that in order to understand and relate to wilderness, we only need a contemplative mind, which is simple and easy. He suggested that life in wilderness is a continual contemplation and communion with God and Spirit. Moreover, in his essay, Wholeness, he suggested that wholeness is being in tune with the wind, sands, and stars, and wholeness is part of simplicity and silence, and of all the components of a wilderness experience. He also compares our daily life as trivial and only with the contemplation of wilderness that we can achieve the wholeness and serenity.
Annie Dillard is another environmentalist that writes about wilderness with deep passion. In her essay, A Passion for this Earth, she wrote about her childhood experiences with a grove of birch trees. Through her daily routine of sitting by the trees, she came to a close connection with the earth and nature. She realized that with every human mood there is a corresponding season and that our lives are seamlessly connected to the great life of the earth. In other words, we are a part of the nature and that the way we act and feel are all intertwine with the evolving of the earth. Moreover, Dillard also drew a connection between our guilelessness of childhood and the revelation of land. She suggested that in one’s childhood, we would roam the land, run around landscapes and be in touch with nature. However, as we grow older, we become more engaged in the daily civilized routine and forget about the beautiful wilderness. Dillard suggested that we should all reawaken the memory of the earth that we experienced during childhood, and be able to establish again a connection with the land.
Restoration and Reunion with nature is the main idea that Carolyn Merchant wants to get through in her essay. Her idea of restoration is a spectrum of emerging disciplines based on imitation, synthesis, and a creative reciprocity between humans and non-human nature. Human are the one who have the power to destroy and alter nature, therefore we should also have the ability to restore it back to the way before. However, before restoring the nature, we need to understand it and also through understanding, ...

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