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A 5 page paper that discusses this question. The essay cites John Muir, J.B. Callicott, White and others to discuss issues related to the question. The writer comments on different interpretations of specific Biblical verses that are said to lead to an anthropomorphic view of the world and nature. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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as a spiritual retreat (Goffman, 2005). While Muir owes much of his philosophy about nature and the wilderness to Thoreau, Emerson and other American Transcendentalists, his position had been emerging
and evolving since childhood (Goffman, 2005). Emerson, for example, had written: "The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and
the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me, and I to them" (Goffman, 2005). It is a spiritual dimension that is more like pantheism than it
is Christianity (Goffman, 2005). Muir saw the interconnection between all things in the universe: "Surely all Gods people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and
elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes - all are warm with divine radium" (Goffman, 2005). Muir developed what can only be called a type of religion, typically
referred to as "a religion of Nature which dew on Native American believes about the natural world and Protestant Christianity" (About, Inc., 2006). It is referred to as Deep Ecology"
(About, Inc., 2006). He saw nature itself as being holy because it showed the nature of God and Gods handiwork (About, Inc., 2006). Muir promoted the premise that humanity must
develop a relationship with nature that emphasized the unity between man and nature and man must pull away from the thought it could simply use nature for its own personal
gain (About, Inc., 2006). Goffman (2005) asks if religion is compatible with environmentalism and points out that the three largest religions, Christianity, Judaism and Islam, all claim to have originated
with Abraham and all separate humans from the ecosystems. In some interpretations, nature is under the control and domain of humans to do as they want with nature but in
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