“The modern social imaginary, a particular anthropocentric and mechanistic imagination devaluing nature and overvaluing humanity, seeing nature as a resource devoid of intrinsic value, subjective meaning or spirit, to be used for the benefit of humanity, leading to destructive rather than protective action towards it (humanity is envisioned as dominant and active, separate from a nature that is subservient and passive—what is seen as the disenchantment of nature, a moral and spiritual emptiness or disorientation, without any guiding environmental ethic, other than anthropocentric one.)”

An excerpt from Ecological Imaginations by Tony Watling, a book about the need for religion and spirituality to reimagine our relationship with nature and humanity’s place in the grand ecosystem of this living planet.