As the stories and images of scripture are drawn from a largely rural environment, today in our particular urban setting it is imperative to stay close to the Book, to know our Bible. Loss of our inner Biblical landscape makes us lonely for our true homeland. Sacredness of Creation. In urban cultures we are so far from the land. For a Celtic spirituality God speaks as profoundly from nature as from scripture.
Earth is pretextual.
Knowing the earth and how to live with their environment informed how they lived with their Holy Book and their Maker. By the end of the 20th century, we have come to read the Bible through consumeristic and mechanistic lenses to see how to live with our planet, and have ended up walking neither with Christ the Word in the knowledge of the Book, nor in harmony with the created order. The heavens are telling the glory of God. The firmament proclaims God's handiwork. Day after day pours forth speech.