COLLECTION OF TEXTS
Manifesto
- A Manifesto for Earth (PDF) (Mosquin and Rowe)
- Un Manifeste pour la Terre French translation (trans. by Laurence Cros)
- Ein Manifest für die Erde German translation (trans. by Timothy Osborne)
- M A N I F E S T O per la Terra Italian translation (trans. by Guido Dalla Casa)
- Um Manifesto Pela Terra Portuguese translation (trans. by Alexandra Marcelino)
- Манифест Земли Russian translation (trans. by Victor Postnikov)
- Manifiesto por la Tierra Spanish translation
- Маніфест Землі Ukrainian translation (trans. by Victor Postnikov)
- Comments on the Manifesto (John A. Livingston)
The Ecology of Beauty (under development); suggestions welcome
- In Praise of Beauty (Rowe)
- Living Beauty (Sandra Lubarsky)
- Beauty and the Botanist (Rowe)
Ecology, Deep Ecology and Ethics
- What on Earth is Environment? (Rowe)
- Ecosphere Thinking (Rowe)
- The Ecology of Cities (Rowe)
- The Roles of Biodiversity in Creating and Maintaining the Ecosphere (Mosquin)
- Wilderness as Home Place (Rowe)
- The Living Earth and Its Ethical Priority (Rowe)
- Dark Green or Deep (Ecocentric) Ethics (Curry)
- Global Environmental Ethics: A Valuable Earth (Rolston)
- Environmental Ethics: Values in and Duties to the Natural World (Rolston)
- An Earth-Based Ethic for Humanity (Rowe)
- Ethical Ecosphere (Rowe)
- Ecocentrism; The Chord that Harmonizes Humans and the Earth (Rowe)
- This is your Mother Calling (Rowe)
- Values Deep in the Woods (Rolston)
- Ecophilosophy, Ecosophy and the Deep Ecology Movement: An Overview (Drengson)
- Deep Ecology Platform; Moving it from Biocentric to Ecocentric (Rowe)
- On Behalf of Bioexuberance (Rolston)
- Feeding People versus Saving Nature? (Rolston)
- Creation: God and Endangered Species (Rolston)
- Ethics and the Sea (Rowe)
- Choosing a Planet of Life (Crist)
Culture
Books/Films/Reviews
- "Ecological Ethics: An Introduction" by Curry (Conelly)
- "Deeply Green Book Guide" by Irvine
- "Life in Others – A Review of Frog Pond Philosophy: Essays on the Relationship between Humans and Nature" by Donnelly (Lubarsky)
- "Home Place, Exploring Human Ecology" by Waterhen Films
- "The Ecology of Eden" by Eisenberg (Rowe)
- "The Sand Dunes of Lake Athabaska" by Jonker and Rowe (Whyte)
Poems/Plays
- Planet Earth (Page)
- The Blind Men and the Elephant (Page)
- Anguilla rostrata (Schueler)
Editorials; Petitions
- A statement from the Canadians for Limits to Growth (Canadians for Limits to Growth)
- A Petition to Urge Political Leaders to Address Fundamental Issues (Canadians for Limits to Growth)
- Biological Fallacy: Life = Organisms (Rowe)
- Marine Protected Areas: A Human-centric Concept (Orton)
- The Fearful Notion of being Reasonable (Mosquin)
- Anthropocentric Science Fiddles while the Earth Burns (Mosquin)
- Sensing the Inherent Values of Natural Ecosystems (Mosquin)
- It's on the Ground, Stupid (Mosquin)
- The Sirens' Song of "Balance" (Poulton)
- Terrorism is as Terrorism Does (Captain Paul Watson)
- Clarification on Where Director Paul Watson Stands on Various Issues (Captain Paul Watson)
- Kyoto, Biodiversity, and the Hypocrisy of World Leaders (Mosquin)
Celebrating the Ecosphere
About the Authors
Click the button above to head to The Ecological Citizen's Ecocentrism Statement which reads, in part: "We, the undersigned, are convinced that the future of our living planet is dependent upon the recognition of the intrinsic value of nature, and strong support for ecocentrism as a worldview. We all have a duty to communicate this whenever possible and to undertake, promote, and endeavour to inspire action in accordance with this worldview." Please go there and sign on.
An anthology of ecological, philosophical, spiritual, economic and cultural articles, editorials and reviews exploring the values of the planetary Ecosphere, its ecosystems, communities and wild species - as the natural and time-tested source of a new and compelling "Earth Ethic" for humanity.
This website provides an introduction to ecocentrism, an emerging new way of seeing ourselves - Homo sapiens - in and on this Earth. Here, students of the relationship between humans and Nature will find a wide range of material exploring the Earth-centred philosophy from many valuation perspectives.
Ecocentrism has been described as post-humanism, for it transfers the reality-spotlight from humanity to the Ecosphere, from the part to the whole. This outside-the-human focus brings with it new standards for thought, conduct and action on such seemingly intractable problems as world population, urbanization, globalization, maintenance of cultural diversity, and ethical duties to the Ecosphere with its varied natural ecosystems and their wild species.
The ecocentric ethic provides a new basis from which to examine the questions of how we should value the natural Earth and its systems and of how people should live.
Ecocentric ethics can also provide moral guidance to corporate and government policy makers and to individuals around the world for undoing the enormous past crimes against Nature, and for building economic systems and communities that are in harmony with the time-tested laws of the Ecosphere.
Ecocentrism recognizes that the Ecosphere, rather than organisms, is the source of life, of creativity, of evolutionary design, and of all meaning.
Human value systems have traditionally been inward-looking, preoccupied with the immediate concerns of the individual, and by extension, of society and culture. Ecocentric valuation invites a broader, outward-looking viewpoint.
Questions are raised and some answers provided about the mysterious and miraculous Blue Planet upon whose creativity, stability and health the life, evolution, and well-being of all organisms depends.
We hope you will enjoy and learn from these many writings - which are intended to increase in number and scope in the months and years ahead.
Please feel free to print out any of the material from this web site and to use it as a basis for discussion in your high school, university class or adult study group. It is requested that users of this material acknowledge the original published sources which are provided with each item.
Our sister website https://ecocentricalliance.org/ introduces an ongoing discussion group for those dedicated to further ecocentrism and ecocentric thought.
You are invited to comment on material posted at this site and offer suggestions for additional ecocentric texts or links.
Managing editor: Paul Mosquin
Email: ecospherics.net@gmail.com
Opinions and editorial views expressed in texts posted on this web site are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the site owners.
"EARTH, the dynamo of LIFE, with its swirling clouds, its running rivers and ocean currents, its slow-moving crustal plates and, in the midst of it all, the Organic Dance!"
Photo by NASA
Last updated: July 2026