Photo: Lars Verket

It is possible to think like a mountain, Aldo Leopold famously suggests in his seminal book A Sand County Almanac (Leopold 1949). In light of this observation, I ask: is it possible to love like a mountain or at least love the mountain—an inanimate (e.g., stones) part of the world? I propose that such love can be practiced. To explain how that can be done, I coin the concept of ecological love (Lysaker 2020b). In the following, I outline that term and relate it to the experience of ecological grief.