In religious practices around the world, we find spirituality and nature going hand in hand. In nature, we become sensitive to our mortality and to the immensity of the life that is our matrix, and both of these sensations, mortality and immensity, offer the foundation for a spiritual life. By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life. As we approach nature as fact finders, analysts, and classifiers, we tend to lose sight of the story we are living, the myth that gives shape to our very investigations. Many of us who limit spirituality to a book or a church long for something more.
Traditional peoples know that nature feeds the spiritual life as nothing else can.
What is required is simple proximity, contemplation, ritual, and a spirit of piety.