tree-hugging
Aggressively pro-nature
Tree-hugging describes fervent environmentalism, often used dismissively by critics: tree-hugging liberals, tree-hugging activists.
The image suggests someone so devoted to nature they would literally embrace a tree to protect it.
Environmentalists sometimes reclaim the term with pride.
Also appears as a noun: tree-hugger.
Natural world protection advocate
- eco-warriorMilitant nature advocate
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
- old-growthLong-undisturbed forest
- loggingRecording system events
conservation · Greenpeace · blockade · sit-in · chainsaw · clearcut · preservation · activist
environmentalist
Natural world protection advocate
- eco-warriorMilitant nature advocate
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
- old-growthLong-undisturbed forest
logging · conservation · Greenpeace · blockade · sit-in · chainsaw · clearcut · preservation · activist · campaigner
hippie
Sixties counterculture member
- liberalOpen to reform
- granolaBaked oat cluster cereal
- bleeding-heartPejoratively soft liberal
idealist · naive · sandals · tie-dye · patchouli · commune · vegetarian · organic · peacenik · counterculture
animism
Spirits inhabit all things
- GaiaPrimordial earth deity
- reverenceProfound admiring respect
- indigenousOriginating in a region
druid · pagan · meditation · grounding · biophilia · pantheism · ritual · Celtic · Wiccan · interconnection
tree-huggingclear-cutting
Removing all trees completely
industrialist · strip-mining · polluting · anti-environmentalist
tree-huggingredneck
Rural Southern laborer stereotype
right-wing · coal-rolling · capitalist · corporatist · conservative
tree, trees, treed, treeing, hugs, hugged, hugger, huggers, hugging