Binding Our Souls to Nature

Saint Patrick's Breastplate invites us into an ecological mysticism.

I bind unto myself today
The virtues of the star lit heaven,
The glorious sun’s life giving ray,
The whiteness of the moon at even,
The flashing of the lightning free,
The whirling wind’s tempestuous shocks,
The stable earth, the deep salt sea
Around the old eternal rocks. — attributed to Saint Patrick

Here’s another legendary prayer that is misattributed to a …