Earth Prayers

"An exquisite and powerful harvest, this – truly a Book of Common Prayer for our planet's people in this time."

JOANNA MACY, author of 'Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age'

Editors Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon assemble 365 prayers, poems, and invocations from global spiritual traditions. The anthology unites ancient chants and contemporary verse into an expansive liturgy — a collective offering honoring the natural world.

The selections range across centuries and continents, bringing Celtic blessings and Buddhist sutras alongside modern American poets. The volume concludes with a seasonal calendar that links daily readings to equinoxes, solstices, and traditional feast days.
Earth-Based Spirituality: Celebrates kinship with all living beings through Mary Oliver’s wild geese, Robinson Jeffers’s coastal meditations, and invocations honoring the four elements. Each passage grounds spiritual awareness in the physical realities of the natural world.Nature Writing: Features classic and modern literature from Edward Abbey, Denise Levertov, and Theodore Roethke alongside reflections on the wounding of wilderness. Writers give voice to both grief over ecological damage and hope for healing.Prayer & Meditation: Provides mealtime graces, daily gathas for routine tasks, and evening prayers that sanctify the turning of day into dusk. Contemplative verses help cultivate focused attention within everyday life.World Religions: Draws together sacred texts from Christian mystic Meister Eckhart, the Rig Veda, Sufi poet Rumi, and prayers from the Zuni, Hopi, and Iroquois nations. Voices across global traditions affirm that creation itself is holy.Also by This Author: Life Prayers and Prayers for a Thousand Years.