Emphasizing joy in the world, human cooperation and the value of all living things, this selection of Arne Naess' philosophical writings is filled with wit, learning and an intense connection with nature. The first essay in this book, The Deep Ecology Movement, was first published in 1986 in Philosophical Inquiry, the other four essays are taken from Ecology of Wisdom (2016).
This book is part of Green Ideas, a series of twenty short books from Penguin Classics that brings you the ideas that have changed the way we think and talk about the living Earth.
Arne Naess (1912-2009) was a philosopher and mountaineer who developed the concept of 'deep ecology' while living in a wooden hut high in Norway's Hallingskarvet mountain range.