War or peace, increasing alienation or reconciliation, management of nature or resacralisation of nature, transgenetic pigs or deep ecological identification with wild nature: in the face of the global ecological crisis the problem of nature and spirit poses itself with great urgency. The Promethean project of modernity of a total subjugation of the earth by the human spirit has carried humankind to the brink of the abyss: the destruction of its natural environment.