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This book of readings, meditations, rituals and workshop notes prepared on three continents provides a context for ritual identification with the natural environment. As relevant today as when it was originally published in 1988, this classic of the sustainability movement helps us experience our place in the web of life - rather than at the apex of some human-centered pyramid. An important deep ecology educational tool for activist, school and religious groups, it can also be used for personal reflection. Spirit of love / Barbara Deming -- We ask for the presence of the spirit of Gaia / John Seed -- "To hear within ourselves the sound of the earth crying" / John Seed -- Self realization: an ecological approach to being in the world / Arne Naess -- Oh, lovely rock / Robinson Jeffers -- Beyond anthropocentrism / John Seed -- Gaia meditations / J ohn Seed and Joanna Macy -- Evolutionary remembering / John Seed and Pat Fleming -- Passenger pigeons / Rohinson Jeffers -- Our life as Gaia / Joanna Macy -- Chief Seattle's message / Chief Seattle -- Bestiary / Joanna Macy -- The council of all being / Pat Fleming and Joanna Macy -- Testimony of Graham Innes / Graham Innes -- Gatha for all threatened beings / Gary Snyder -- Guidelines for a council of a all beings workshop / Joanna Macy and Pat Fleming