"The world exists not for what it means, but for what it is. . . . It is a false piety that walks through creation looking only for lessons which can be applied somewhere else. . . . We were made in the image of God. We were created to delight, as He does, in the resident goodness of creation. We were not made to sit around mumbling incantations and watching our insides to see what creation will do for us."

Robert Farrar Capon, qtd. in Dreher, Crunchy Cons