Taoism is the first major philosophical and religious tradition explored by Peter Marshall, in his book Nature’s Web. Marshall calls Taoism “the way of nature,” emphasizing that this is the ideal religion from the perspective of ecological sensibility. Passivity is a key element of Taoist thought, and is a repeated concept in the primary Taoist text, the Tao Te Ching. The concept of passivity stresses that the wise person will not attempt to cause …showed first 75 words of 1381 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1381 total…come together for the good of the earth, before saving the Earth is no longer a possibility. Marshall approaches the subject well in Nature’s Web, discussing the philosophy with a rather unbiased outlook (a luxury we are not afforded when he gets to Christianity). He emphasizes the good qualities that are stressed when one lives by the Tao, and how it truly begins the framework for the modern ecological concept of “unity within diversity.”