What deep ecology directs us toward is neither an environmental ethics nor a minor reform of existing practices. It directs us to develop our own sense of self until it becomes Self, that is, until we realize through deepening ecological sensibilities that each of us forms a union with the natural world, and that protection of the natural world is protection of ourselves.

~ Alan Drengson

McClellan Butte. Snoqualmie Pass, WA – photo by Chris Williams Exploration Photography, used with permission