Hindu texts Prior to the start of the common era, the Hindu texts were composed orally, then memorized and transmitted orally, from one generation to next, for more than a millennia before they were written down into manuscripts. This verbal tradition of preserving and transmitting Hindu texts, from one generation to next, continued into the modern era. The Vedas are a large body of Hindu texts originating in ancient India, with its Samhita and Brahmanas complete before about 800 BCE. Composed in Vedic Sanskrit hymns, the texts constitute the oldest layer of Sanskrit literature and the oldest scriptures of Hinduism. Hindus consider
Religion and environmentalism ideas that are in line with environmentalism, such as wu wei, moderation, compassion and Taoist animism. Parallels were found between Taoism and deep ecology. Pioneer of environmentalism John Muir was called "the Taoist of the West". Rosenfeld wrote 'Taoism is environmentalism'. In Jainism, the ancient and perhaps timeless philosophical concepts, like "Parasparopagraho Jivanam", were more recently compiled into a Jain Declaration on Nature, which describes the religion's inherent biocentrism and deep ecology. () Religions of the World and Ecology Book Series: Other Texts: Religion and environmentalism Religion and environmentalism is an emerging interdisciplinary subfield in the academic disciplines of religious