Nature is the Body of God

This entire universe, whatever is still or moving, ispervaded by the divine.

I have no other Masters than the beeches and theoaks.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Black Mesa begins with us. The Four SacredMountains are our laws.

Navajo Way

The earth is man's very body.Dalsetz Suzuki

Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pinetrees. John Muir

This cave simulates origins in a way that makescontemplation all but unnecessary. In a sense, I

have been left stranded at the entrance to myself. James Cowan

Nature is imagination itself. William Blake

I am hungry for the stillness and wisdom of caves.Stephanie Kaza

What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. Inthe dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock.

Edward Abbey

Sacred places are the truest definitions of theearth.If you would know the earth for what it really

is, learn it through its sacred places.N.Scott Momaday

Space has a spiritual equivalent and can healwhat is divided and burdensome in us.

Gretel Ehrlich

Having spent the day searching for mana, mysticvoices, a luminous encounter with the Other, I met

simply a deer. I felt an enormous joy.Belden C. Lane

Tell me the landscape in which you live and I willtell you who you are.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

O ancestors, powerful spirits, who live amongstus: your tombs are the mountains, your waterfalls

are the clouds, the plants are your jewels.Sumatra Incantation

The wise take pleasure in rivers and lakes, thevirtuous in mountains; the wise are continuously

active, the virtuous still.Confucius

If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.Goethe

As the sheath and branching leaves of theplantain are seen in its stem, so You are the stem

of the universe and all is visible in You.Hindu Prayer to Vishnu

I'm too religious to believe in religion. You don'thave to believe in a sacred world. It slaps you in

the face. It's everywhere.Gretel Ehrlich

The ocean is filled with joy—the atmosphere alljoy/Joy in freedom, worship, love! Joy in the

ectasy of life.Walt Whitman