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Van Waffle

Writer, Naturalist, Photographer

Tag: Islam

From Islam, lessons on nature, beauty and believing

Posted on August 20, 2015August 20, 2015 by Van Waffle

Seyyed Hossein Nasr blames environmental decline on “the divorce of our understanding of nature from the sacred and the spiritual.” The Islamic philosopher…

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