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…The spirituality of the earth is more than a slogan. It is an invitation to initiation, to the death of what we have been and the birth of something new.

~ David Spangler

Wailua Falls, Kauai – photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission