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Joanna Macy
Overview
Mary Joanne Rogers Macy (May 2, 1929 – July 19, 2025), known as Joanna Macy, was an American environmental activist, author and scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory and deep ecology. She was married to Francis Underhill Macy, the activist and Russian scholar who founded the Center for Safe Energy.
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It seems the force of her own spirit, expressing its feelings in forms which react upon itself. The strength of her impulses persuades her that she is called from on high to deliver her native France; the intensity of her own faith persuades others; she goes forth on her mission; all bends to the fiery vehemence of her will; she is inspired because she thinks herself so. There is something beautiful and moving in…
Thomas Carlyle, The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
States what Joanna Macy is.
Her mother-in-law also, at first by whisperings of evil servants incensed against her, she so overcame by observance and persevering endurance and meekness, that she of her own accord discovered to her son the meddling tongues whereby the domestic peace betwixt her and her daughter-in-law had been disturbed, asking him to correct them. Then, when in compliance with his mother, and for the well-ordering of the…
of Hippo Augustine, The Confessions of St. Augustine
Close in meaning to Joanna Macy; the term itself is not named.
Knowledge of the process and conditions of physical and social change through experimental science and genetic history has one result with a double name: increase of control, and increase of responsibility; increase of power to direct natural change, and increase of responsibility for its equitable direction toward fuller good. Theory located within progressive practice instead of reigning statically supreme over…
John Dewey, The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy, and other essays in contemporary thought
Close in meaning to Joanna Macy; the term itself is not named.
Related ideas
- Environmentalism
- Arne Næss
- Deep ecology
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Sri Lanka
- Systems theory
- Pratītyasamutpāda
- Theravada
- Tibet
- Buddhism
- Nyanaponika Thera
- California Institute of Integral Studies
Place in the tradition
Part of Buddhist philosophy.