Thanks for publishing Nalini Nadkarni's article on churches, trees, and environmental perspectives in Environmental Practice 4(4). For a number of years, I have been involved in trying to reach out to the faith community concerning not only environmental/lifestyle issues, but also addressing the holiness of creation as a reflection of God, and it's good to see this type of outreach highlighted. I belong to what most would consider a fundamentalist denomination, but I find that it's not difficult to work within this context since anyone wanting to truly go “back to the Bible” can find all that is needed there in terms of caring for the earth and not following our American cultural “directives” to consume. Trees form the bookends of the Bible, from the tree of life in the garden in Genesis to the tree of life along the river of life in Revelation, and the mandate in Genesis 2:15 to tend the garden also ends somewhat frighteningly in Revelation 11 with the seventh angel declaring that “the time has come for destroying those who destroy the earth.”