Whither Religion?

In the second chapter of Devoted to Nature by Evan Berry, he tells a story about how these people from Seattle loved mountains and so they basically would meet at a state park and just share their love of mountains together. Then later down the line they made the group made their purpose more of a religious purpose. Which I completely understand, I mean people go to church to share their love of God and these people started meeting because of their love for mountains. I think that religion and nature goes hand and hand a lot. If it wasn’t for a higher power than would we even have the mature we have today? Would we be able to enjoy it they way we do without a higher power? At times you get people who don’t understand why businesses want to cut down all these trees that God made. Why are they making God’s creatures homeless? I would say a current issue that religion and nature go hand and hand is when you talk about deforestation. Humans are not the only creatures on this planet even though a lot of people think we are. People forget that God made all creatures and that in that view when you cut down whole forests. You are cutting downs homes to animals and insects and you are killing them. Now if people were doing that to humans it would be awful but, its not so bad because they are just animals or bugs. Which in reality they are all God’s creatures.