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But if fairies are the ambassadors who can help human beings to live in greater harmony with our natural environment, what does that say about how we have commercialized and trivialized the good people? Perhaps the process of transforming fairies from fearsome otherworldly spirits to charming garden sprites coincided with the changing way that modern humankind has regarded our habitat. To the pagan Celts, nature embodied the sovereignty of the Goddess; in the Christian view, nature has often been seen as something amoral and fearsome that needed to be mastered; while in today’s post-modern, secularized world, nature has become our neglected mother, whom we ignore to our peril. And just as we have tamed nature from powerful goddess to mistreated earth mother, so we have tamed the fairies, reducing them to plastic statues available for thirty dollars at your neighborhood boutique. Granted, angels have suffered a similar fate. Maybe we need to reconsider: it won’t be until we respect the spiritual beings in our cosmos again, that we will likewise truly respect the nature that sustains us.