"I was almost in love with nature from early youth," confesses Augustin Wibbelt in his memoirs. His great love for nature, for creation as a whole and for every single living creature is very clearly shown above all in his numerous writings in High German, which are unfortunately unjustly little noticed. In them, Wibbelt repeatedly draws attention to the special features, the significance and the beauty of the living world around us. He proves to be not only an excellent connoisseur, but also a far-sighted "ecologist", pointing out environmental problems such as the decline in biodiversity or the clearing out of the cultivated landscape as early as the first half of the 20th century. He was thus, as is only now becoming clear, far ahead of his time. This book deals with and pays tribute to important and characteristic - High German ! - statements of the man of letters, priest, scientist and "mastermind" Augustin Wibbelt on nature, creation and the environment.