Many people find and strengthen
their spirituality in natural areas.

Many Faiths Believe in the Conservation of Creation.

The Alliance of Religions and Conservation, ARC, works with 11 faiths world wide. These faiths and their networks embrace 85% of the world's population: some 5 billion human beings. Drawing on their traditions, faith communities are working in countless ways to care for the environment. Each faith has its own distinctive history and teachings, and its own unique relationship with the natural world.
This section outlines the basics of each faith's history, beliefs and teachings on ecology. At the end of each faith section are links for further information. ARC website

Evangelical Environmental Network & Creation Care Magazine
Members of the Evangelical Environmental Network, as followers of Jesus Christ are committed to the full authority of the scriptures and believe that biblical faith is essential to the solution of our ecological problems.

We, our children, and our global neighbors face a growing crisis in the diminishing health of the creation in which we are embedded, and through which, by God's grace, we are all sustained. I proudly claim my identity as a Christian environmentalist. I take action to model Christ by serving the earth and poor. And I call on my brothers and sisters in Christ to boldly declare the Lordship of Christ over all creation and demand that our leaders take action to protect that, which sustains all life. Commentary by Nicole Holt Creation Care

Unitarian Universalist 7th Principal
“Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.” UU Association

Many other denominations and belief systems hold these values. Ask your leader or minister for more information or search for resources that guide your beliefs to further understand the connection between
Spirits and the Garden.

Nature Quotes

"To trace the history of the a river or a raindrop, as John Muir would have done, is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. In both, we constantly seek and stumble on divinity". - Gretel Ehrlich

"From wonder into wonder existence opens". - Lao Tzu

"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts". - Rachel Carson

"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed". - Francis Bacon

"Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches". - Jane Jacobs

"Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment". Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To trace the history of a river or a raindrop, as John Muir would have done, is also to trace the history
of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. In both, we constantly seek and stumble on divinity". Gretel Ehrilich

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