Topic: Ecocentrism

Subtopics: Ecophilia

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by Katherine Rundell

“He’s a guardian. He had not been clear, until this moment, what that meant: it meant this feeling. It meant burning to keep watch, for that which needed to be watched. It meant burning to keep it safe. It meant a ferocious and careful love.”

by Mélina Mangal

“The magic of nature was all around them—right there in the middle of the city.”

by Sadé Smith

“Julie loved all kinds of fruit. But the ones she loved most were mangoes.”

by Amitav Ghosh

“This is the jungle, the timeless tide, where the river meets the sea. Here, nature’s laws alone decide, what can and cannot be.”

by Marie Boyd

“I’m not just a worm. I can do lots of things.”

by Julia Richardson

“Swish, swirl, one hundred seeds fly. / One little seed flies with the wind, far, far away.”

by John Musker, Ron Clements

“I know who you are / Who you truly are”

by Patricia MacLachlan

“She guards all the creatures in all the oceans—the black manta rays sleek like shadows, the shining parrot fish, the tiny krill who swim with millions of other krill to look big. And the whales who are big.”

by Anne Wynter

“Before anyone finds out how high they can climb, Nell picks up a seed.”

by Stacy McAnulty

“There’s no other planet like me in the solar system. And I need your help to stay awesome.”

by Mai K. Nguyen

“We gotta be careful not to hurt the things around us, because nothing’s really gone forever… everything leaves a little mark”

by Yuval Noah Harari

“Homo Sapiens has grown so accustomed to being the only human species that it’s … eas[y] for us to imagine we’re the pinnacle of creation, separated from the rest of the animal kingdom by an unbridgeable chasm”

by Nguyen Thi Thu Trang

“Bears eat what they plant, and they plant what they eat. Bear should be wild and free.”

by Don Hall

“This place is alive. It’s a living thing! We didn’t find the heart of Pando. We found an actual heart.”

Tales from the Inner City

by Shaun Tan

“It’s hard to convey how natural it all seemed, and how even the first conversations began without us really noticing.”