John Seed travels the world in service to the earth. As a founding father of the Deep Ecology movement, heâs noticed that âwe speak of âthe environment,â which makes it sound as though this is something thatâs far away from us. But if we hold our breath for a few minutes while we consider the matter, we quickly realize that âthe environmentâ is constantly cycling through us through the air we breathe, through the water we drink, through the food we eat.â