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PANTHEIST TEMPLES

Pantheists don't build church-houses; Nature is our church.

The Place No One Knew ed. by David Brower, Sierra Club, 1963.
Eliot Porter photography combined with quotations about the value of wilderness: see especially the second part of the book, "The Idea".

The Desert Year by Joseph Wood Krutch, William Morrow & Co, 1952.
Essays about the desert illustrate the meaning a Pantheist derives from nature.

Baja California & The Geography of Hope by Joseph Wood Krutch, Sierra Club, 1967.
More Eliot Porter photographs, with excerpts from Krutch's many books, offering perhaps the best anthology of Krutch's pantheistic religious views on the meaning of man and nature.

Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey, Ballantine Books, 1968.
A modern classic; Abbey describes himself as "not an atheist but an eartheist."

John of the Mountains ed by Linnie Marsh Wolfe, Houghton Mifflin, 1966.
All of John Muir's writings are infused with Pantheism; this collection from his journals represent his most "religious" writing.

Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth by James Lovelock, Oxford Univ. Press, 1979.
This increasingly influential book advocates a view of the Earth as a single, self-regulating organism, with the non-living environment being described as intimately related to and even regulated by the living biosophere.

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For more information about Pantheism, or questions about this website please contact Harold Wood at ups@pantheist.net Pantheism \Pan"the*ism\, n. [Pan- + theism.]: Any doctrine, philosophy, or religious practice that holds universe [cosmos], taken or conceived of as the totality of forces and/or matter, is synonymous with the theological principle of God.

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