Spiritual Ecology: Reading the Book of Nature and Reconnecting with the World

Today we face increasing environmental challenges, from climate change and extreme weather patterns to deforestation, threats to animal species, and ongoing farming and food-supply crises. Virtually every day brings new alarming reports. How are we to respond, especially if we wish to take a broader, spiritual view of these events?

Steiner's work is full of important, far-sighted perspectives on our relationship as human beings with the natural world. Indeed, his insights are more relevant t...