Nature Temple

"We are Nature, long have we been absent, but now we return."

~Walt Whitman, "We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd"

Sauntering the free and open sanctuary of Nature on the island of Earth.  Discovering natural wisdom and beauty in the works of Chris Highland.

Writings of Chris Highland

Meditations of John Muir: Nature's Temple

Meditations of Henry David Thoreau: A Light in the Woods

Meditations of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Into the Green Future

Meditations of Walt Whitman: Earth, My Likeness

Meditations of Margaret Fuller: The Inner Stream

Meditations of John Burroughs: Nature is Home

Life After Faith:  Beyond the Broken Cross

My Address is a River: Journeys with the Homeless God

Wild Teachers:  Jesus and John Muir

Essays in Natural Spirituality

Photographs by Chris Highland

. . .where the wilderness becomes sanctuary, zendo, church, mosque, synagogue, chapel, grove. . .Nature's wondrous temple.