Editing David Foreman (section)

==Philosophy and sense of the sacred==

A year after Foreman's death, a set of appreciative essays was published. [[Bron Taylor]] contributed a remembrance that included excerpts from personal interviews he had recorded in 1990 and 1993:<blockquote>

1990: "I agree with [[Aldo Leopold]] about virtually everything. A thing is right when it tends to advance the beauty, stability, and integrity of the natural community," and we should "protect the earth because we love it," noting that this was what Leopold was expressing when he wrote, "There are those who can live without wild things and sunsets and there are those who cannot." After quoting Leopold, Foreman added, "I think that's fundamentally the key. When you really love wild things, you recognize that your own life does not have meaning apart from those things."

1993: "It's very difficult in our society to discuss the notion of sacred apart from the supernatural. I think that's something that we need to work on, a non-supernatural concept of sacred; a non-theistic basis of sacred. When I say I'm a non-theistic [[pantheism|pantheist]] it's a recognition that what's really important is the flow of life, the process of life.... [So] the idea is not to protect ecosystems frozen in time ... but [rather] the grand process ... of [[evolution]].... We're just blips in this vast energy field ... just temporary manifestations of this life force, which is blind and non-teleological. And so I guess what is sacred is what's in harmony with that flow."<ref name="Taylor">{{cite book | last = Taylor | first = Bron | chapter = Dave Foreman: Wise Guy | editor-last = Morgan | editor-first = Susan | title = Wildeor: The wild life and living legacy of Dave Foreman | publisher = Essex Editions | location = New York | date = 2023 | pages = 205–211 |isbn=978-1-7335190-4-5|url=http://www.brontaylor.com/environmental_articles/pdf/Taylor--DaveForeman.WiseGuy_inWildeor(Cover)_ToC&Back-appended(2023).pdf}}</ref>
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