Derived from the Indian Atharvaveda, one of the oldest books of mankind, Hymn to the Earth, forms part of the extensive Vedic scriptures of Hinduism. With its great veneration of both divinity and the natural world, the richness and beauty of its imagery, and the profundity of its thoughts, Hymn to the Earth continues to speak to us all these years later through its lively poetic movement. As Hermann Beckh says in the introduction:...