 Religious Campaign for Forest Conservation  “Prayer
for the Redwoods”
drafted by The Interfaith Task Force to Save the Redwoods, January 15, 1998 PRO TECT THESE
ANCIENT
TREES
FROM
ALL WHO WOULD
HARM
THEM. SECURE
THEM
FOR OUR
CHILDREN,
AND FOR THE
CHILDREN
OF ALL THE CREATURES
WHO
DWELL BENEATH THEIR
BRANCHES.
SAVE THEM FROM OUR GREED.
SAVE
THEM FROM OUR
SHORTSIGHTEDNESS. SAVE
THEM FOR THE SAKE OF
LIFE
ITSELF. SAVE THEM FOR THE
REMEMBRANCE
OF THOSE WHO WALKED
AMONG
THEM IN DAYS
OF
YORE, AND THOSE
WHO
WILL WALK AMONG
THEM
IN DAYS YET TO COME. SAVE
THEM
NOT BECAUSE THEY ARE GRAND, BUT
BECAUSE
THEY ARE
FRAGILE.
SAVE THEM FOR
THE
DIGNITY OF NATURE AND THE
GLORY
OF CREATION, AND FOR THE JOY OF
THE
HUMAN SPIRIT. FOR THESE TREES WE PRAY, AND
BESEECH
YOU, O GOD, FOR WE ARE THEIR ROOTS, AND WE ARE
SEEDLINGS AND WE ARE
THE
CANOPY
THAT
REACHES
TO
HEAVEN; ALL
OF
US, IN ONE
VOICE.
ALLOW
US
THIS DAY TO
FULFILL
YOUR
COMMANDMENT TO
GUARD AND
PROTECT
THIS,
YOUR
GIFT TO
ALL
HUMANKIND,
THE
BOUNTY OF
NATURE,
AND
THESE
ANCIENT
REDWOOD
TREES.
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