We cannot assume the sacredness nor spiritual livingness of the earth or accept it as a new ideology or as a sentimentally pleasing idea…We must allow it to shape us, as great spiritual ideas have always shaped those who entertain them…It is an invitation to initiation, to the death of what we have been and the birth of something new.

~ David Spangler

Early Spring Landscape, Yosemite National Park – photo by Andrushko Galyna, bigstockphoto.com