You cannot uproot a person from one place and expect that she will necessarily thrive elsewhere. A human is not like an angel, a pure intellect that can flourish no matter where it lives or what it is nourished by. Primal nature rites focus mainly on maintaining the regular course of natural events. This cooperative orientation toward nature makes primal peoples essentially conservative about making large-scale alterations to the natural world that would upset nature's norms or damage individual plants and animals, e.g., dams, cities, highways, etc. Indeed, they are conservative about small alterations.
Environmentalists often look to primal peoples as models of proper human interaction with nature.
The natural world and the body are valued in primal religious thought, unlike in most historical religions. Thus there is little interest in escaping the body or despising the world. Because they assume that it exists to nurture them, they have no disposition to challenge it, defy it, refashion it, or escape from it. But together they constitute a single domicile. But the overriding goal of salvation that dominates historical religions is virtually absent from them, and life after death tends to be a shadowy semi-existence in some vaguely designated place in their single domain.