"Even before I could speak, I remember crawling through
blueberry patches in the wild meadows on our hillsides. I quickly discovered
Nature was filled with Spirit; I never saw any separation between Spirit and
Nature. Much later I discovered our culture taught there was supposed to be
some kind of separation - that God, Spirit and Nature were supposed to be
divided and different. However, at my early age it seemed absolutely obvious
that the church of the Earth was the greatest church of all; that the temple of
the forest was the supreme temple. When I went to the sanctuary of the
mountain, I found Earth's natural altar - Great Spirit's real shrine. Years
later I discovered that this path of going into Nature, bonding deeply with it,
and seeing Spirit within Nature - God, Goddess, and Great Spirit - was
humanity's most ancient, most primordial path of spiritual cultivation and
realization."
- John P. Milton, Sky Above, Earth Below
"In all things of nature there is something
marvelous."
- Aristotle
"The first act of awe, when man was struck with the
beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience."
- Henryk Skolimowski
Spirituality and Nature
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