Earth Prayers From around the World: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations for Honoring the Earth

I am an ordained Interfaith minister. This book is my Bible, my hymnal, my book of devotions. These are not traditional prayers or prayer forms. These entries span time, space, and culture, to give us words to bless our newborns and our dying, to give thanks and seek comfort, to experience the Divinity that is "I Am."

Thank you Elizabeth and Elias for compiling this wonderful book of earth honoring prayers. I've used it many times to find an appropriate opening or closing to classes or other gatherings where a moment of earth gratitude and awareness was called for. In fact, I've used it so much that I lost it and need to buy another one! It is also a rich source of prayers to use for personal spiritual work, prayers that help slow me down enough to remember the sacredness of the natural world. Even if I'm hard at work in the city and can't be physically present in some of nature's more healing places, at least I can remember to feel the earth beneath my feet, and to honor her. It is a great book just to pick up and browse through, and contains prayers that are ancient and full of the energy of thousands of our ancestors, and prayers that represent a new awakening to our lost heritage. An earth bible for earth lovers! By the way, I've heard rumors of a Volume II. Is it true and can I purchase it here, or elsewhere?

This book brings together poems and prayers from all sorts of cultures honoring nature. There's a Navajo chant, zuni chant, hidu prayer, songs by eskimos, poetry by robert frost and emily dickenson and more and more. Four hundred pages of wonderful words for the earth. I love it! Here are the different "chapters":The Ecological Self, A Sacred Place, The Passion of the Earth, Healing the Whole, The Elements, Blessings & Invocations, Praise and Thanksgiving, Benediction for the Animals, Cycles of Life, The Daily Round, and Meditations. I like to just flip the book open and read a few to ponder. Simply wonderful.

This book contains a collection of writings that capture the heart and mind in relationship to humanity, God, higher power, nature and the environment. It is a gem for those who look to enrich and develop their spirituality in prayer/conversation. Some may see it as a modern psalter or book of Wisdom. Whatever one's religious experience, deepening and broadening their awareness of the holy and sacred can be experienced through meditating upon these words and entering into the spirit of the authors. Many will find this to be a great place to find a reflection or prayer before a meeting or a journey. The uses are limitless and text great.

Enjoy the earth through literature, poetry and meditations with this guide. If you love the feel of dirt beneath you, the wind in your hair, or water on your feet, this is a book you must carry with you.