Deep Ecology is a philosophy that says that humans have to radically change their relationship to nature. That we must go beyond nature as useful as for human beings and recognised for its inherent value independently of our use.

Deep Ecology movement - calls for a redesign of all human made systems based on values and methods that truly preserve the ecological and cultural diversity of natural systems.

• Overview: https://green.harvard.edu/news/daring-care-deep-ecology-and-effective-popular-environmentalism
• And https://www.britannica.com/topic/deep-ecology
• To go deeper… and you should… take this course https://www.programmes.gaiaeducation.uk/worldview-en or this course https://www.capracourse.net/

A similar concept is Biophilia - Our innate love for life

• Edward O. Wilson - the need to relate to other life forms and natural processes is an essential and integral part of human development and physical and mental growth.
• There is an instinctive bond between human beings and other living systems
• “Aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual meaning and satisfaction”
• “The ecological crisis, in short, is about what it means to be human.”
• Human intelligences could not have evolved in a lunar landscape devoid of biological diversity.
• Elemental things like flowing water, wind, trees, clouds, rain, mist, mountains, landscape, animals, changing seasons, the night sky, and the mysteries of the life cycle gave birth to thought and language.

The new physics

• "Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science, but man needs both”.
• At the sub-atomic level, particles are not things but relationships between things.
• “Modern physics reveals the basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independent existing smallest units.”
• Physics shows that what we see as a collection of separate parts is actually a continuously transforming whole, governed more by the qualities of relationships
• “As the plant is formed, maintained and dissolved by the exchange of matter and energy with its environment, at which point can we say that there is a sharp distinction between what is alive and what is not?”