The Sacred Book of Nature

  There is no greater scripture than Nature, 
  for Nature is Life itself.  
  Nature in it's different aspects is the materialization of that light 
  which is called the divine Spirit.  
 

May you be praised, O Lord, in all your creatures, especially brother sun, by whom you give us light for the day; he is beautiful, radiating great splendor, and offering us a symbol of you, the Most High.. May you be praised, O Lord, for sister water, who is very useful and humble, precious and chaste... May you be praised, O Lord, for sister earth, our mother, who bears and feeds us, and produces the variety of fruits and dappled flowers and grasses...

God's majesty is glorified in the manifestation of every manner of nature's fruitfulness. With nature's help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life-sustaining. The sum total of heaven and earth, everything in nature, is thus won to use and purpose. It becomes a temple and altar for the service of God.

The beauty of creation reflects the infinite beauty of the Creator. Each creature possesses its own particular goodness and perfection. Each of the various creatures, willed in it's own being, reflects in it's own way a ray of God's infinite wisdom and goodness. Man must therefore respect the particular goodness of of every creature, to avoid any disordered us of things which would be in contempt of the Creator and would bring disasterous consequences for human beings and their environment.

Driven by the desire to discover the ultimate truth of existence, human beings seek to aquire those universal elements of knowledge which enable them to advance in their own self-realization. These fundamental elements of knowledge spring from the wonder awakened in them by contemplation of creation.