To them, the human is not the Master but one of the dwellers of this earth, seeking a place within its order. It is forester's ecology, seeking to return to nature in the most tangible sense of that word. Nature, though, is also the nature we bear within. Thinkers who tend to identify loosely with deep ecology see the basic estrangement not as one between humans and the rest of the created world but between the superficial dimensions of our humanity and the depth of our being. Borrowing a paradigm from C. G. Jung, they see all life through the millennia as one reality, much as Jung's collective unconscious.
Individual beings are but offshoots or outcroppings of that collective depth.
So a woodchuck or a porcupine is not an autonomous being but one momentary manifestation of their species and ultimately all life. So is each individual human consciousness. Humans can kill and destroy nature because they think only with their alienated reason, blind to the emotion and intuition that link them to all life. In recovering the collective depth of our being, meditation may be of more use than forestry, yoga more than catalytic converters. Undoing ecological damage and generating a sustainable mode of being human will take place almost by the wayside as humankind rediscovers the pre-rational collective identity of all life.