Saints who loved nature

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I know of JP2 and Pier Giorgio and of course Francis, but are there any other saints who really loved nature?
 
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Well, St. Francis really loved animals. Stories (perhaps apocryphal) tell of him preaching to animals.

EDIT: Oh, you already put Francis. I just saw JP2 and Giorgio at first.
 
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Assuming that Pope Francis is canonized when he passes, he did release an encyclical on the environment, Laudato si’. Does that count?
 
I read somewhere that Saint Philip Neri had a love for nature and animals.
 
St. John of the Cross loved nature, whether staring at the stars or flower, he saw it a way to raise our minds to our Creator.

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His poetry is so beautiful and it is reminiscent of one of my favorite books, the Song of Songs!
 
Ah, I must admit I have not read his poetry! But I read a summary of his life (from Fr. Dubay’s “The Fire Within”) recently that mentioned his love for nature, and that his poetry is some of the best of all Spanish poetry.
Any particular recommendations?
 
Maybe the poem of the Dark Night of the Soul. He manages to incorporate it into a good book. The Spiritual Canticle is really good too. I didn’t really read it but the few parts I read where really good. I feel bad that I have forgotten all about them.
 
St. Gianna Beretta Molla loved to spend time in nature hiking, skiing, and traveling.

St. Kateri did too and she is the patron saint of ecology! 🙂
 
Oh right, right, I hear those names quite a bit, but I didn’t know they were poems. Must be long poems! Weird that I read St. Teresa really early on but never really read St. John of the Cross. Thanks!
 
The Dark Night of the Soul is a real book but Saint John of the Cross poem that had some of the points he was going to discuss in the book.
 
St. Francis Caracciolo. As a young nobleman, he loved horseback riding in the mountains, hiking, and hunting. He brought back so much game that his father was inspired to open a school to teach local cooks how to prepare the animals in addition to other dishes which were traditional of the area. This school is considered the world’s first culinary academy. After he left his noble family behind to help found a religious order devoted to poverty, mortification and humble service, he nearly always walked from destination to destination when he traveled, sleeping in the woods if no wayhouse would allow him entrance when he begged for a bed. Quite often, he and his companions would avoid routes with major cities (even if it took longer) so they could spend more time in nature in prayer.
 
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So was st Hillary of Bingen.
She wrote an herbal guide
 
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