A view of nature

Unitarian View on earth and nature
Whether I walk alone or walk with a friend; whether I walk in the mountains, beside the sea or past a flowing river and trees, I find my heart singing. My song is a song of exultation at the grandeur of nature. And sometimes its vastness tinges my thoughts with sadness. It is purely the emotion of being part of it. This is nature in its vastness. I feel a spiritual connection to it - a sense of privilege and a sense of awe. My feelings are not of a god having created all this but of spirits unseen within it. They are the spirits of the long ago who walked the paths and ascended the same summits or threw the same pebble into the sea. If all this is the work of a creative artistic God, well it is brilliant. I delve no further than to say ‘Thank You’
And if you can take your eyes away from the far distant horizon and the overarching sky - whether it be resting pale and blue or swirling with wind and storm filled clouds and you look closely there is a microtic world. Here is the next miracle. The petals of the small flower shine a colour that attracts the bee. The bee takes the nectar and both flower and bee will live and bequeath another generation into the flow of the world. This is the ideal. There is no destruction and no fear. The bee, the hive and the nectar are a community in nature.
The animal kingdom amazes me. It’s chain of destruction is fearsome and restless and you never see a dead animal unless it has been killed by a human. The animal system cleans up after itself.
Nature makes this earth a sacred and uncertain place, a jewel set in an endless dark universe. I know that humankind can create too and improve on nature but mostly we tend to destroy it along with ourselves. How sad for the creator.


tony mcneile