But again we are not talking about supernatural beings. Nature made us and at our death we will be reabsorbed into nature. We are at home in nature and in our bodies. If nature is the only paradise, then separation from nature is the only hell. When we destroy nature, we create hell on earth for other species and for ourselves.
Nature is our mother, our home, our security, our peace, our past and our future.
We should treat natural things and habitats as believers treat their temples and shrines, as sacred - to be revered and preserved in all their intricate and fragile beauty. Pantheism satisfies our need to revere something greater than ourselves - yet it never turns its back on the earth, and never departs from the evidence before us. Pantheism fuses religion and science, matter and spirit. Pantheism is rooted in the present world. It reconciles concern for humans, and concern for the planet.