Abstract
“The Bible's creation hymns teach us that we are earth creatures, mud people, molded by the cosmic potter out of the clay of earth. But many of us in the postmodern West construe ourselves differently as denizens of a shopping-mall, temperature-controlled, throw-away world in which we have little need for reidentification with the primitive soil of our ancestral origins. Others, however, hunger for a renaturalized Christianity where the palpable sense of divine presence can be touched and tasted and heard and smelled in the push and pull of natural beings and forces.”
“I enter a swamp as a sacred place,—a sanctum sanctorum.”
“I believe that man is at the top of the pecking order. I think that God gave us dominion over these creatures … I just look at … a chicken … and I consider the human being on a higher scale. Maybe that's because a chicken doesn't talk.”
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