To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!
I'm trying to champion the naturalist's worldview and show it's not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be.
My religion is the Earth, man. I believe in trees.
Think globally, act locally": "Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.
There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.
The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.
Worshiping the earth is more fun than going to church. It's also closer.
It is this subtle dimension of understanding that marks the southwestern Indian peoples from other religions and separates tribal peoples from the world's religions. Somewhere in the planetary history religious expression changed from participation in the sound, color and rhythm of nature to the abstractions of man outside this context pleading for temporary respite and hoping in the next life to return to the Garden.
I am a witch, by which I mean that I am somebody who believes that the earth is sacred, and that women and women's bodies are one expression of that sacred being.
The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.
I prayed to trees. This was easier than praying directly to God. There was nearly always a tree nearby.
I, myself, identify myself as a heathen.
The spiritual sense of our place in nature... can be traced to the origins of human civilization... The last vestige of organized goddess worship was eliminated by Christianity.
