On the need of rituals and ceremonies II

And then this one, on the relationship of ritual and belonging, of land and belonging, from the eco pioneer, Dolores LaChapelle:

If we are to truly re-connect with the land, we need to change our perceptions and approach more than our location. As long as we limit ourselves to rationality and its limited sense of "practicality," we will be disconnected from the "deep ecology" of our place. As Heidegger explains: "Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes."It takes both time and ritual for real dwelling. ... 

Ritual is the focused way in which we both experience and express that respect.Ritual is essential because it is truly the pattern that connects. It provides communication at all levels – communication among all the systems within the individual human organism; between people within groups; between one group and another in a city and throughout all these levels between the human and the non-human in the natural environment. 
... Most important of all, perhaps, during rituals we have the experience, unique in our culture, of neither opposing nature or trying to be in communion with nature; but of finding ourselves within nature, and that is the key to sustainable culture.

Art And Ceremony In Sustainable Culture,  page 39