Poem from Hildegard von Bingen

 I am the one whose praise echoes on high. 

I adorn all the earth.

I am the breeze that nurtures all things green.

I encourage blossoms to flourish with ripening fruits. 

I am led by the spirit to feed the purest streams. 

I am the rain coming from the dew 

That causes the grasses to laugh with the joy of life.

I call forth tears, the aroma of holy work. 

I am the yearning for good.

Hildegard understood God being everywhere, in all creation, and at the same time being transcendent.  

Currently, as has been said, we suffer nature deprivation. In the vast majority of earth time, humans have lived in nature, and they learned from it about many things, including about God.  Nowadays it's mostly the asphalt jungle. 

It seems to lead to a certain insanity, insanity that d eludes us and leads us away from connection to self, to others, to nature, and to God. Increasing numbers are led to a frenzy of violence and ugliness, to extreme immorality and cruelty. Some just escape it all into the matrix of electronics. 

We see civilization unravelling in so many ways. There is a crazed atmosphere in dark places that seem to grow as the evening shadows grow. 

If we are to turn this around, we need to turn and find the way back to wholeness, to holiness. 

Whether or not this wave of civilization can be turned and saved is not known. Many civilizations have come and gone.