Sacred Nature
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For most of human history nature was held to be sacred, and our God or gods were believed to be present everywhere in nature. That was true of almost all the world''s cultures and religious traditions. When people in the West began to separate God and nature in the seventeenth century, it was not just a profound breach with thousands of years of accumulated wisdom and exp...
Brought to you by Penguin.
For most of human history nature was held to be sacred, and our God or gods were believed to be present everywhere in nature. That was true of almost all the world''s cultures and religious traditions. When people in the West began to separate God and nature in the seventeenth century, it was not just a profound breach with thousands of years of accumulated wisdom and exp...
