Think About Mother Earth On The 40th Earth Day

All praise be yours, my Lord, through Sister Earth, our mother, who feeds us in her sovereignty and produces various fruits with colored flowers and herbs. (St Francis of Assisi).

From the very source, of this our life and light, there indeed issued forth by a sort of emanation the life, illumination, and soul of creation, Endelechia. She was like a sphere, of vast size yet of fixed dimensions, and such as one might not perceive visually, but only by intellect. (Bernard Silvestris, The Cosmographia).

The point is that the medieval poets were not in the scrape at all. They believed from the outset that Nature was not everything. She was created. She was not God’s highest, much less His only, creature. She had her proper place, below the Moon. She had her appointed duties as God’s vicegerent in that area. Her own lawful subjects, stimulated by rebel angels, might disobey her and become ‘unnatural.’ There were things above her, and things below. It is precisely this limitation and subordination of Nature which sets her free for her triumphant poetic career. By surrendering the dull claim to be everything, she becomes somebody. (C.S. Lewis, The Discarded Image).

What follows is a listing of posts written by contributors of Vox Nova (past and present) which might be of interest for Earth Day. It is not an exhaustive list, but I hope it provides a good sampling of what is available here.

General Environmentalism

Global Warming/Climate Change

Think About Mother Earth on the 40th Earth Day