The modern druid said:

Yesterday’s druid says: “I worship nature.”

Today’s druid says: “I am nature.”

The druid’s saying is not mystical escalation or modern bravado. It is the logical result of improved self-location within a fully natural ontology.

“I worship nature” expresses a coherent orientation in which nature is treated as external, prior, and authoritative. This stance is preserved and transmitted through tradition, which functions as a stabilising carrier of meaning, reverence, and survival heuristics.

As descriptive clarity increases—via biological continuity, cognitive naturalisation, and the recognition that nothing operates outside nature—the subject–object distance becomes unnecessary. At that point, worship is no longer false, but redundant.

“I am nature” is therefore not ego inflation. It is a locational claim: the speaker recognises themselves as a bounded, temporary configuration of the same processes they once addressed as “other.”

This shift marks prodition (the inverse of tradition): not rejection of inherited forms, but their internalisation and completion. What was once carried externally as ritual and authority is metabolised into operational identity.

Consequences:

· ethics becomes self-regulation, not obedience

· reverence remains without kneeling

· responsibility increases (harm to nature = self-harm)

· humility deepens (identity is local and temporary)

The aphorism is quiet, non-rebellious, and final.
It does not abolish tradition—it finishes its work.

“I worship Nature vs. “I am Nature”

Tradition vs. Prodition

The druid Finn also said:

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