From https://feralspore.noblogs.org/post/2021/12/13/its-time-to-kiss-the-earth-again/
The first time I heard of this was on Immediatism Podcast and I was obsessed for a while, but honestly, I’d forgotten about it. I recently been looking thru Immediatism to recommend my friend an episode couldn’t remember of and I rediscovered this episode, and let me just say, this essays charm has not waned.
“It is time to reassert the nature-based spirituality of our collective human past. If the natural world is not sacred, then why should it matter? The only alternative is to say that the natural world is important because we depend on it for our own survival as a species. This is to say, as we have seen above, that humanity is really the thing we care about and nothing more: that the natural world is important to us only insofar as it serves our needs. Any argument for the inherent value of all natural things can only be made from spiritual grounds.”