title: This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature and Environment
author:  Roger S. Gottlieb 
description: "There us bi better single volume that covers all the essential facets of religious environmentalism. Highly recommended..." -- <i>The Readers Review</i>
zlib_text: SACRED SEED
  Introduction by Dr. Vandana Shiva
  Essays by:
  His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew 
  Pir Zia Inayat-Khan · His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen
  Trinley Dorje 
  Sister Joan Chittister, OSB · Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee · Chief Tamale Bwoya 
  Swami Veda Bharati · Tiokasin Ghosthorse · Rabbi Arthur Waskow 
  Blu Greenberg & others
  THE GOLDEN SUFI CENTER® PUBLISHING
  
  “e way we live and act is determined by the perceptual lenses
  that are shaped by our beliefs and values. Our belief that it is
  our right to use as we wish, any part of the biosphere—air,
  water, soil, other life-forms—has created problem aer
  problem. If life is sacred, then we cannot treat other organisms
  as if they are cars or computers, we must act with humility,
  respect, and love. is book provides a powerful perspective to
  temper our unseemly rush to engineer everything within the
  biosphere.”
  —David Suzuki, author, e Sacred Balance
  “ere is no more beautiful gi from nature than the seed—
  and its pr