Living systems are defined broadly as ocean, forests, desert, wetlands and other geographical areas.
3.
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Biodiversity (2005) 79.
4.
SuzukiDavid, The 11th Hour (DVD, 2007).
5.
BerryThomas, Evening Thoughts (2006) 107.
6.
HartmannThom, The 11th Hour (DVD, 2007).
7.
LivingstonJohn, Arctic Oil (1981) 24.
8.
Ibid.
9.
BerryThomas, The Great Work (1999) 4.
10.
EinsteinAlbert, quoted in BosselmannKlaus, ‘The Way Forward: Governance for Ecological Integrity’ in WestraLauraBosselmannKlausWestraRichard (eds), Reconciling Human Existence with Ecological Integrity (2008) 319.
11.
BakerCharles, ‘Property and its Relation to Constitutionally Protected Liberty’ (1986) 134University of Pennsylvania Law Review744.
12.
AllottPhilip, Eunomia: New Order for a New World (1990) 298.
13.
GrahamNicole, Lawscape: Paradigm and Place in Australian Property Law (D Phil Thesis, University of Sydney, 2003) 19.
14.
HarrisJames, Legal Philosophies (2004) 16.
15.
Graham, above n 13, 16. Outside Earth Jurisprudence, important work has been done in law-geography to consider the role of place, space and the land in jurisprudence. See BlomleyNicholas, Law, Space and the Geographies of Power (1994); BlomleyNicholasDelaneyDavidFordRichard (eds) The Legal Geographies Reader: Law, Power and Space (2001).
16.
FreyfogleEric T., Justice and the Earth: Images for our Planetary Survival (1993) 49.
Private property is ‘that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe.’: BlackstoneWilliam, Commentaries on the Laws of England: Volume II, Of the Rights of Things (first published 1766, 1979 ed) 2.
19.
UnderkufflerLaura, The Idea of Property: Its Meaning and Power (2003) 1.
20.
SingerJoseph William, An Introduction to Property (2005) 2.
21.
Freyfogle, above n 16, 59.
22.
Berry, above n 9, 72.
23.
A contemporary example is a debate on the preservation of the spotted owl in America. Journalist Krauthammer said, ‘[n]ature is our ward, not our master it is man's world and when man has to choose between his well-being and that of nature, nature will have to accommodate’: KrauthammerCharles, ‘The Spotted Owl’Time Magazine (17 June 1991) 82. In solidarity, Rush Limbaugh noted, ‘If the owl can't adapt to the superiority of humans, screw it … if a spotted owl can't adapt, does the earth really need that particular species so much that hardship to human beings is worth enduring in the process of saving it?’ LimbaughRush, ‘The way things ought to be’ (1992) quoted in JamiesonDale, Ethics and the Environment: An Introduction (2008) 181–82.
24.
BerryThomasSwimmeBrian, The Universe Story (1992) 77.
25.
CapraFritjof, The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems (1996) 33–34
26.
Professor Ian Lowe quoted in SuzukiDavid, The Sacred Balance (1997) 16.
27.
Berry, above n 9, 4. For more background on this statement refer to BerrySwimme, above n 24; BerryThomas, The Dream of the Earth (1988); SwimmeBrian, The Universe is a Green Dragon, (2001); and SwimmeBrian, The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos (1998).
28.
BerryThomas reignited this debate in ‘Ten Principles for Jurisprudence Revision’; cited in BerryThomas, Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as Sacred Community (2006) 149–150.
29.
See BurdonPeter, Wild Law: A Reader in Earth Jurisprudence (2010) forthcoming Wakefield Press and UKELA, Wild Law: Is There Any Evidence of Earth Jurisprudence in Existing Law and Practice (2009). An online version can be downloaded at <earthjurisprudence.org/documents/WildLaw_Report.pdf> at 11 May 2010.
30.
Berry, above n 9, 5.
31.
HohfeldWesley Newcomb‘Some Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Legal Reasoning’ (1913) 23Yale Law Journal16; ‘Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied to Judicial Reasoning’26Yale Law Journal (1917) 710–770.
32.
For example see LivingstonJohn, Rogue Primate: An exploration of human domestication (1994); ‘Interview’ in JensenDerrick, Listening to the Land (2004); RolstonHolmesIII, Environmental Ethics: Duties to and Values in the Natural World (1988); PlumwoodVal, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature (1993).
33.
MayhewLucy, ‘Rights for Nature’ (2009) Resurgence253: 8–9.
