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Throughout the ages, the weaving of our religious weft has been the province of our prophets and gurus and liturgists and poets.

— Ursula Goodenough The Sacred Depths of Nature (1998)

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We do have something of a story here, a true story, that we can work with religiously should we elect to do so.

Any global tradition needs to begin with a shared worldview — a culture-independent, globally accepted consensus as to how things are.

The Sacred Depths of Nature (1998)

We nurture our children selflessly. But we also recognize them as our most tangible sources of renewal — for a child, the world is always new.

The Sacred Depths of Nature (1998)

When I sing the hymns of faith in Jesus' love, I am drawn to their intimacy, their allure, their poetry. But in the end, such faith is simply not available to me.

The Sacred Depths of Nature (1998)

Life from nonlife, like wine from water, has long been considered a miracle wrought by gods or God. Now it is seen to be the near-inevitable consequence of our thermal and chemical circumstances.

The Sacred Depths of Nature (1998)

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There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature (1836)

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.

T. S. Eliot Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)

Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity...but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.

George Chapman Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Michael Faraday

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