Charles Raven, an eminent naturalist and leading Christian writer, said this:

“There has been…a general tendency in Christian thought to regard nature and the natural order, if not as inherently evil, at least as spiritually meaningless… The Catholic anchorite, for whom natural beauty was a snare of the devil, and his Puritan brother, for whom the world was at best a vale of tears. join hands here” [Creator Spirit, 1927].