Cascadia
The Elusive Utopia; Exploring
the Spirit of the Pacific Northwest
Edited byDouglas Todd. Chapter 14 by Gail Wells.
“Nature-based spirituality in Cascadia: Prospects, Pitfalls, and Observations.”
“My intention here is to offer a gentle yet skeptical meditation on claims to environmental enlightenment made on behalf of nature-based spirituality. I realize it will be a struggle to grab hold of ‘nature-based spirituality’ and define it in useful terms, because at this moment in its history there is nothing discrete or codified about it, no flying-buttressed edifices, no countable congregations, no pastors, deacons, creeds, catechisms, or articles of faith.”