Care for Creation
Protecting and nurturing the natural world is a sacred duty.
All of Ahura Mazda's creation is good and deserves protection. Animals, plants, water, and earth are sacred. Pollution and destruction serve the Destructive Spirit; care for creation serves Mazda.
Care for the creation of Mazda as for your own life.
Zoroastrianism contains early environmental ethics.
Avesta
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- What Zoroastrianism says about balance
Looking after the natural world is a duty rather than a preference. The reasoning is simple: it is the good creation, and it is under attack.