Nobody has mentioned the song from Paul Winter's beautiful Missa Gaia/Earth Mass The Blue Green Hills of Earth, apparently based on the song above
For the Earth, Forever Turning
    words and music by Kim Oler

    For the earth, forever turning;
    For the skies, for all the seas;
    For our lives, for all we cherish,
    Sing we our joyful song of peace.

    For the mountains, hills, and pastures;
    In their silent majesty;
    For the stars, for all the heavens,
    Sing we our joyful song of peace.

    For the sun, for rain and thunder,
    For the seasons' harmony;
    For our lives, for all creation,
    Sing we our joyful praise to Thee.

    For the world we raise our voices,
    For the home that gives us birth;
    In our joy, we sing, returning,
    Home to our blue-green hills of earth.
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from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Hills_of_Earth

The song was echoed on Paul Winter's 1982 album Missa Gaia/Earth Mass, in which Susan Osborn sang the lead on The Blue Green Hills of Earth. The connection was suggested to him by astronaut Rusty Schweickart, who walked in space on the Apollo 9 mission, inspired by Schweickart's view of Earth from orbit.

from http://uua.org/ga/ga00/275.html

The Blue Green Hills of Earth was Paul Winter's adaptation of words from a poem in a Ray Bradbury story and set to music by Kim Olen It made it into the new UU Hymnbook as "For the Earth Forever Turning, " in a somewhat altered arrangement. Here is the original setting, with the words as they are in Singing the Living Tradition. Sing along.

Of the twenty or so performances of The Missa Gaia I performed with the Consort across the country, no two were the same. Aside from the improvised parts we added new pieces highlighting the "latest news." Tonight, we include several other pieces associated with the Winter Consort's ecological themes: A Song for the Earth, which follows the circulatory system of the earth the water cycle; Harmony, which sings of the balance and harmony of nature; and as a finale, Common Ground, the celebrated Winter Consort theme song that sums up the whole idea of all nature communing in one great song and dance.

In peace, Jim Scott June 2000

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cheers- Julia