To safeguard and nurture both the natural world that is our environment and our spiritual lives, we will have to challenge the dominance of the scientific mythology that with much superiority and authority shrinks our approach to nature in a culture obsessed with gathering information. Studying nature is not our only option. We can also mediate upon it and find there a solid basis for spiritual sensitivity. We can be educated by nature, becoming persons of broad vision and subtle values. In nature we can find our place, our identity and our affections.
Nature offers a way to discover the riches of our own souls rather than the powers of the ego.
In this way, nature deepens our very sense itself. Thomas Moore is the author of Care of the Soul, The Re-enchantment of Everyday Life and The Soul of Sex .