"In 1979 after the first direct actions which eventually led to the protection of Australia's rainforests, I founded the Rainforest Information Centre (RIC) and since that time I've been working on the conservation of the world's rainforests.

It soon became clear however, that the forests could not be saved one at a time nor the planet saved one issue at a time. Unless we could simultaneously address the underlying psychological or spiritual disease that allows modern humans to feel separate from nature, the destruction of species and life-support systems would continue.

It was in 1981 that I first stumbled upon the philosophy of "deep ecology" which showed me how we might address this underlying disease. In 1986, with Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming and Arne Naess, I co-authored THINKING LIKE A MOUNTAIN - TOWARDS A COUNCIL OF ALL BEINGS which is both an exposition of this philosophy and description of an experiential workshop that can bring deep ecology to life as a lived experience as well as a way of thinking.

Here are some articles that I have written over the years which present my perspective on this way of seeing the world.

for the Earth,   John Seed