Nature Spirituality From the Ground Up Quotes

“We lavish tremendous concern and care on scenery but we ignore the ravaging of environments from which our lives are drawn”
― Lupa, Nature Spirituality From the Ground Up: Connect with Totems in Your Ecosystem

“When we don’t feel connected to a place, it becomes anonymous, and that anonymity is what allows us to be so destructive: we believe we don’t have to care about something we know nothing about. We depersonalize the land and then simply take what we want from it, thinking there won’t be any consequences. But when we do this, we’re actually destroying our own life-support system.”
― Lupa, Nature Spirituality From the Ground Up: Connect with Totems in Your Ecosystem

“Numerous animals, from Douglas squirrels to an assortment of tiny insects, as well as mosses, lichens, ferns, and other plants and fungi, all make their homes in living Douglas fir trees. When one of these mighty trees dies and falls to the forest floor, it becomes a nurse log—that is, a huge decaying hunk of wood that feeds countless living beings with its fibers and the nutrients therein. A tree sucks up a lot of resources in its lifetime, and when it dies, all those resources are released back into the ecosystem at large to be used by other beings.”
― Lupa, Nature Spirituality From the Ground Up: Connect with Totems in Your Ecosystem

“The integration of daily life with spirituality is something I believe is neglected all too often. Spirituality is often treated as something separate from the rest of our lives, a way of thinking that stems in large part from the tendency to see the physical and spiritual as distinctly separate realms.”
― Lupa, Nature Spirituality From the Ground Up: Connect with Totems in Your Ecosystem