{"id":9030,"date":"2020-01-31T16:06:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T00:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oceanecology.ca\/wp\/?page_id=9030"},"modified":"2026-07-24T11:35:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:35:05","slug":"oe-index","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oceanecology.ca\/wp\/","title":{"rendered":"oe_index"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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A<\/span> narchy<\/span>
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Seeking the truth …<\/span>
\r\nUnderstanding the way …<\/span>
\r\nInventing the path …<\/span>
\r\nFinding the wisdom …<\/span>
\r\nTelling the story …<\/span> <\/span> <\/span><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n
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A<\/span> narchy<\/span> <\/span> \u00a0–\u00a0n.<\/em>\u00a0a state in which people are free equals with no domination, oppression, central authority, or law<\/span> <\/span> <\/span>
\r\n P<\/span> hilosophy<\/span> <\/span> \u00a0–\u00a0n.<\/em>\u00a0the study of the nature of existence, knowledge, thought, and ethics<\/span> <\/span> <\/span>
\r\n E<\/span> cosophy<\/span> <\/span> \u00a0–\u00a0n.<\/em>\u00a0wisdom-spirituality of the earth<\/span> <\/span> <\/span><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n
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\r\n“The duty of the individual is to accept no rule, to be the initiator of his own acts, to be responsible. Only if he does so will the society live, and change, and adapt, and survive.”<\/i>
\r\nUrsula K. Le Guin from The Dispossessed<\/span><\/span>
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\r\n“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”<\/i>
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\r\n“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”<\/i>
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“Anarchism has but one infallible, unchangeable motto, ‘Freedom.’ Freedom to discover any truth, freedom to develop, to live naturally and fully.”<\/i>
\r\nLucy Parsons from Freedom, Equality & Solidarity – Writings & Speeches, 1878-1937<\/span><\/span>
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\r\n“I think hard times are coming, when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies, to other ways of being. And even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom: poets, visionaries\u2014the realists of a larger reality.”<\/i>
\r\nUrsula K. Le Guin<\/span><\/span>
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Seeking simplicity …<\/h3>\r\n
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Living sustainably in harmony with nature and our world views through self-sufficiency, responsibility, intentionality, and mindfulness.<\/p>\r\nCheck it out<\/a><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Transitioning away from a dependency on non-renewable energy sources and environmentally destructive resource extraction towards a more self-sufficient, sustainable existence living in harmony with our environment.<\/p>\r\nCheck it out<\/a><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n

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B<\/span> ardistry<\/span> <\/span> \u00a0–\u00a0n.<\/em>\u00a0the creation and telling of stories<\/span> <\/span> <\/span>
\r\n S<\/span> tory<\/span> <\/span> \u00a0–\u00a0n.<\/em>\u00a0a narrative, true or fictitious, prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the audience<\/span> <\/span> <\/span>
\r\n M<\/span> ythography<\/span> <\/span> \u00a0–\u00a0n.<\/em>\u00a0the creation or collection of myths in artistic form<\/span> <\/span> <\/span>
\r\n F<\/span> antasy<\/span> <\/span> \u00a0–\u00a0n.<\/em>\u00a0imagination unrestricted by reality<\/span> <\/span> <\/span><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n
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\r\n“A story rises from the springs of creation, from the pure will to be; it tells itself; it takes its own course, finds its own way, its own words; and the writer\u2019s job is to be its medium.”<\/i>
\r\nUrsula K. Le Guin<\/span><\/span>
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\r\n“Fantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality.”<\/i>
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“See me as the Sun on the mountaintop,
\r\nFeel me in the power of the seas.
\r\nHear me in the laughter of the stream,
\r\nPower of nature, power of the trees.
\r\nHear me in the howling of the wolf,
\r\nMy voice is the song of the Bards,
\r\nI am the power that helps the salmon leap,
\r\nI am the very first breath of a child.
\r\nI am the wild, and I am the tame,
\r\nI am the calm and I am the storm.
\r\nI am the sound of your beating heart,
\r\nI am your blood and I am your bone.”<\/i>
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Philosophizing about ways to change the universe while visualizing imaginative locales and creating exciting adventures.<\/p>\r\nCheck it out<\/a><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Objective scientific reporting, advocacy, commentary, and autobiographical reflections … each reveals a window into the soul of the author.<\/p>\r\nCheck it out<\/a><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n

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C<\/span> reativity<\/span> <\/span> \u00a0–\u00a0n.<\/em>\u00a0the act of turning original and imaginative ideas into reality<\/span> <\/span> <\/span>
\r\n E<\/span> piphany<\/span> <\/span> \u00a0–\u00a0n.<\/em>\u00a0a sudden and profound understanding or inspiration; Awen<\/span> <\/span> <\/span>
\r\n I<\/span> magery<\/span> <\/span> \u00a0–\u00a0n.<\/em>\u00a0the ability to form mental images of things or events<\/span> <\/span> <\/span>
\r\n A<\/span> rtistry<\/span> <\/span> \u00a0–\u00a0n.<\/em>\u00a0creative skill, ability, or imagination<\/span> <\/span> <\/span><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n
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\r\n“I went out to the hazel wood,
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\r\nI dropped the berry in a stream
\r\nAnd caught a little silver trout.”<\/i>
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E<\/span> rosophy<\/span> <\/span> \u00a0–\u00a0n.<\/em>\u00a0the interested, passionate, embodied love of wisdom<\/span> <\/span> <\/span>
\r\n E<\/span> cology<\/span> <\/span> \u00a0–\u00a0n.<\/em>\u00a0the study of the relations between living organisms and their environment<\/span> <\/span> <\/span>
\r\n I<\/span> ngenuity<\/span> <\/span> \u00a0–\u00a0n.<\/em>\u00a0the power of creative imagination<\/span> <\/span> <\/span>
\r\n S<\/span> agacity<\/span> <\/span> \u00a0–\u00a0n.<\/em>\u00a0the quality of being wise or having good judgment<\/span> <\/span> <\/span><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n
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