The second image of sustainability is often referred to as “deep ecology” and it considers the ecosystem as a living whole of which humanity is only one part. In this complex web of interrelationships all species are dependent upon each other, and it is this dynamic pattern of inter-relationship that needs to be sustained. No one part can be considered as separate from the whole, and the idea that the environment is just here to support our human civilization is a travesty of real environmental consciousness.

~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
from Sustainability, Deep Ecology, and the Sacred

Rainbow at Lake Crescent – photo by TAO Photography, used with permission