Green Thought For The Week

A Green Thought For The Week every week of the year! A 'Green' quote, to start your week, from various sources across the spectrum of the green movement, science and philosophy. Though the selection is broad the perspective of this blog is that of Deep Ecology. The quotes have been selected, complied and edited by John Gale a long term Deep Ecologist. Also hosted is John Gale's "Green Reading List" which lists a selection of must reads for those wishing to Green their perspective!

Monday 22 August 2011

Edward Payson Evans - ‘ Evolutional Ethics and Animal Psychology’.

Today’s Green Thought comes from Edward Payson Evans 1897 book ‘ Evolutional Ethics and Animal Psychology’.

Man is as truly a part and product of nature as any other animal, and [the] attempt to set him up on an isolated point outside of it is philosophically false and morally pernicious

On this basis Evans then branded as being wrong

maliciously breaking a crystal, defacing a gem, girdling a tree, crushing a flower, painting flaming advertisements on rocks and worrying and torturing animals

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Payson_Evans

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