1/ In pagan cultures, people kept alive a sense of divine partnership between humanity and nature. Rituals were held routinely to fortify the bond between people and trees, rivers, earth and sky.

2/ An early dispensation of Christendom destroyed that sacred connection, calling it blasphemous & replacing it with the idea that God had given earth to man to use for his utilitarian purposes. That split was for all intents and purposes the beginning of our environmental crisis

3/ The attitudinal and philosophical split between humanity and nature has caused extraordinary damage not only to nature but also to ourselves. The industrialized, rationalistic and materialistic perspectives of the 20th C fortified the split and did tremendous collective harm.