“If we could assume the view of nonhuman nature, what passes for sane behavior in our social affairs might seem madness.”

The Voice of the Earth: An Exploration of Ecopsychology (2001)
Context: If we could assume the view of nonhuman nature, what passes for sane behavior in our social affairs might seem madness. But as the prevailing reality principle would have it, nothing could be greater madness than to believe that beast and plant, mountain and river have a "point of view." …minds exist, so we believe, nowhere but in human heads.

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American social historian, social critic, writer 1933–2011

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