Images (click on the authors/titles for photographs)
I. Aspects of Nature
Water :
“The
Water Molecule”
Ball,
“Fluids” ( “Surface Matters” “Riverrun”
“The Giant’s Eye” )
Thompson, “Splashes”
Feld, “Waterfalls of Song”
Earth:
Johnson,
“Muso Kokushi and the Cave in Zuisen-ji”
Lovelock, Gaia
Voigt and Drury, “Creation” “Sacred Earth,
Sacred Land”
II. Patterns
Ball, “Patterns”
Thompson, "The Equilateral Spiral"
Johnson,
“The Spiral Designs of Nature, and Craft”
III. Nature, and the Concept of the Sacred
Schwartz, “Jews, Jewish Texts, and Nature”
Schimmel, “Sacred Geography in Islam”
Lane, “Desert Catechesis”
Kramrisch, “Space in Indian Cosmogony and Architecture”
Cook, “The Jewel Net of Indra”
Sinha, “Nature in Hindu Mythology, Art, and Architecture”
Kabilisingh, “Early Buddhist Views on Nature”
Tellenbach and Kimura, “The Japanese Concept of Nature”
Shaner, “The Japanese Experience of Nature”