Belief suggests holding to an opinion impervious to the taunts of evidence or explanation. Every culture seems built upon it, even if God is not always in the picture. People need to believe things which they cannot have experienced, to make meaning possible. These could be rules or visions, stories or statistics. We need them to know what to do next.
Traditional religions can have much to say to the ecological seeker.
The essays here tend to emphasize individual experience of a meaningful surrounding world, and do not speak as much of the collective mobilizing force of the great religions in our time and through history. There's a modern day pilgrimage here, and a journey that makes geology sound alive. A memoir of changes by the side of a country road, and a poem on the precarious poise of the world in this time. Beleaf is shaken all the time by the jolts of experience, and images of senselessness. We watch millions flee the cruelty of one nation for an unknown fate in another.