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This 6 page report discusses deep ecologist Dolores LaChapelle’s 1988 book addressing the issues surrounding deep ecology. Her particular area of interest and expertise is the range of the Rocky Mountains called the San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado. Bibliography lists only the primary source.
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She is a wilderness scholar, mountaineering expert, former ski instructor, author, and director of the Way of the Mountain Learning Center in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado.
"Sacred Land Sacred Sex Rapture of the Deep" serves as both a workbook and an inspirational work to demonstrate the ways in which the human species has become unbalanced with
the harmony of all life. The geographic location on which she focuses is the mountains and high desert of southwestern Colorado (the towns of Silverton, Durango, Cortez are the
primary human population centers) although her insights and wisdom is applicable to all realms of wilderness. Her goal is, as she quotes Aldo Leopold in the books introduction" "To
change ideas about what the land is for, is to change ideas about what anything is for." LaChapelles premise in life and in her book is that in order to
understand and rectify what damage humanity has done to the earth, the first step is to take the reality and depth of human nature and human action into consideration since
virtually everything humans do or have done in the development of the culture and society of the United States has been anti-nature and, therefore, anti-human. Her fifty years in
the mountains of Colorado and her life spent in the study of mountains, especially those of Colorado and Utah, have led her to a greater understanding of the problems humanity
has caused but has also given her the knowledge and awareness to suggest change - not in what we do to the mountains but in who we ourselves are. The
Idea of Deep Ecology LaChapelle describes deep ecology as neither politics nor philosophy and comments that most Western scholars ("Western" in terms of the Eurocentric tradition, not in terms of
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