Talk to the birds, trees, rocks – as if they were neighbours or friends. The world around you will suddenly become more alive.

“Connection isn’t about nature in our service, a slave to our needs, a commodity for our use, a sticking-plaster for our stresses. Nature isn’t there to provide us with therapy; that isn’t what connection is about.

Each of these principles holds wisdom for our world. Imagine if more people saw the many sides of nature as sacred, and treated all earth as hallowed ground? What if we recognized all beings as no less alive than we are, and saw no stone left unensouled?