This place we must guard for each new generation,
to leave as we found it or, better, restored;
to share each resource without greed or pretension,
not barring the needy, not plunder, nor hoard.
Hymns
Hymns for use in churches and school – (Index and Links)

to be sung to well known tunes.
New ones are being added at the beginning. Current total: 22
Since 2019 there are two types of songs/hymns added to this list: ** Written in black ** ** Written in red **
1. ** Written in black ** The authors are happy for people to print their hymn for services and non commercial publications etc provided that the exact words are printed, and that the authors are credited. They would be pleased to hear where the hymns are being used. These will appear in the book “Environment Praise” (details). Some were written for the Settle Methodist Circuit Hymn Competition in 2001, and four – from the 2016 Competition.
2. ** Written in red ** These link to outside sites – please follow instructions on those sites as to permission for using the hymns.
3. **Links to other useful websites with environment hymns –at bottom of page
Date add-ed | Title | Author | Example Verse (Not necessarily first verse) | Tune | Short comment |
22. 5 Jan 2020 |
Our God flies | Lisle Ryder | Tune: Hyfrydol Words usually sung to this tune: Alleluya, sing to Jesus Metre: 8.7.8.7.D |
Our God who lives, flows in waters, tumbles in rivers, and drifts in snows, flashes as silver from shoals of fish, darts in darkness round rugged rocks, blooms afresh as showers bring flowers with fresh aromas for bugs and bees. With all the creatures we are one, at one with God in wonder held. . | |
21. Dec 2019 | Melting Frozen Jewels | Lisle Ryder | Tune Metre: 7676 D: Ewing, Hatherop Castle, Aurelia, Crüger etc. God’s bountiful creation, our hearts with wonder fill, held now in contemplation with mind and body still. Diversity of creatures, varieties of plants for our delight displayed here that we may be entranced. , | ||
20. Dec 2019 | With Every Creature sing | Lisle Ryder | Tune: Luckington (Let all the world in every corner sing) Meter: 10.4.6.6.6.6.10.4 Let all of us with every creature sing, praise to our God! Above us in the air may we all be aware of birds and bees in flight, whether by day or night. Sing with one voice to celebrate the life of creatures all! . | ||
19.
Aug 2019 (Hymn written May 2019) | Andrew Pratt | Recommended Tune: The care of our planet, the threat of extinction, | |||
18. Dec 2016 | Earthcare | Selly Oak Green Team | Recommended tune: The Skye Boat Song
Chorus …… 1) | An entry in the open local section for the 2016 Settle Methodist Circuit Hymn Compe-tition: Theme: The God of Creation. | |
17.
Nov 2016 | O, Lord we know that you made every thing | Win Walters | Recommended Tune: Peel Castle, Hymns and Psalms 346
O, Lord we know that you made everything | This was first prize in the local section for the 2016 Settle Methodist Circuit Hymn Compe-tition: Theme: The God of Creation. | |
16. Nov 2016 | Green Guardians
(Good for Chidren) | Alison Blenkin-sop | Recommended Tune: All things bright and beautiful
Chorus: All things bright and beautiful, 1. Each little flower that opens | An entry in the open local section for the 2016 Settle Methodist Circuit Hymn Compe-tition Theme: The God of Creation. | |
15 Nov 2016 | For life we rejoice | Matt Allen | Tune: Laudate Dominum (O Praise Ye the Lord)
For life we rejoice; | An entry in the open local section for the 2016 Settle Methodist Circuit Hymn Compe-tition Theme: The God of Creation. | |
14 | God’s Goodness | Mary Whitfield | Written in farming community in 2001 (Foot and Mouth year). TuneL C.M. Beatitudo (J.B. Dykes 1823-76) Words usually sung to this tune: Fill thou my life, O Lord my God H&P 792(ii) 1. Oh Lord the beauty that we see,Around us everywhere, | ||
13 | Weaver God | Kate Compston | I haven’t got copyright for this – so can’t put the hymn on this site – but I give a link to where it is printed elsewhere and to a recording of the hymn. Here is the last verse: Weavers we are called, yet woven too we’re born. | Local Preacher John Anderson used this at a service in the Bradford district. | |
12. Nov | Mother Earth | Audrey Theo-dosia Bryant | Tune “O Danny Boy”
Oh mother earth, | Written for Copenhagen and CEL | |
11. Aug ’09 | Climate is Warming | George Stuart | Sung to “The Ash Grove“. As climate is warming | Our first “Climate Change” hymn. | |
10. | Green Bottle Decade | Audrey Bryant | Ten green bottles standing on the wall, Ten green bottles standing on the wall And if one green bottle should accidently fall There’ll be nine green bottles standing on the wall.One green bottle nearly full of oil From the world’s great caverns under sea and soil, Supplies are running out with ever rarer finds – They’re trying to fill it up with oil of different kinds. When this green bottle is empty it will fall And there’ll be nine green bottles standing on the wall. | Sung to Ten green bottles | |
9. Aug ’08 | Good gifts for all | Alison Blenkin-sop | Sung to “We plough the fields and scatter“. The fields of many countries | Hymn with green/ fairtrade / debt themes to well known harvest tune. | |
8. Oct | For the beauty of the earth | Sheila Redmond | Sung to: As the Deer Pants. But the earth belongs to our children, | Nice tune. Practical straight forward words | |
7.Sept | Lord of All Lang-uages | Audrey Theo-dosia Bryant | Sung to Slade (Lord of all hopefulness). Lord of all whispering, speak in the leaves | Spiritual and thoughtful. 6 Verses | |
6.
June | Creator God | Jenny Baines | Sung to Sine nomine (For all the saints…). Beneath the moon the ocean lifts its tide, | This can make a joyful and moving end to an environ-ment service. | |
5. May | The Earth is the Lord’s | Gerald H Gardiner | .. touching on harvest, delight in creation, and our present multi-faith society, . (Tune: Lord of the Dance). The earth is the Lord’s, sing Christian and Jew, | Good tune. Multi faith element | |
4. Apr | En-twining Circles | Jean Mac-Donald | Set to the folk tune “Waly Waly“, this song reminds us that entwining circles “Join us with sea and earth and sky”, the earth is suffering from pollution.. So we believe, Creator God, | Haunting tune | |
3. Mar | What the Lord Creates | Jessica, Emily and Sam Craw-shaw | This hymn – sung to Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star – won first prize in the Children’s Section of the Settle Methodist Circuit and CEL Environment Hymn Competition 2001 . Praise him, Praise him, Praise the Lord For the wonders of the world. For the people big and small For the animals short and tall We will care for all these things That our Lord Creator brings. ……. | Could get your children to add extra verses. | |
2. Feb | The Glory of Creation – | Denzil Walton | Written for the Second Sunday before Lent – Creation / Environment Sunday in the Old Lectionary. The Second Sunday before Lent was treated as Environment or Creation Sunday in the Old Lectionary and still is in some versions of the Anglican Lectionary.(Tune: Ewing or to other 7.6.7.6 D hymns) – and used by several visitors to this website for the occasion. . Deep mysteries, of oceans and unknown outer space, Migration paths of swallows, the eagle’s nesting place. The more we gain in knowledge, the less we understand This world so rich and complex, created by God’s hand …….. | Some beautiful descriptions of Nature | |
1. Jan | Creator God, abundant Life your mark – | Mrs Pat Bennett | Tune: Sine Nomine the tune to “For all the saints who from their labour rest” Sung at The Operation Noah Service on 4th November at the start of the Stop Climate Chaos Demonstrations.The hymn can be heard briefly in the interview with the Bishop of London on Radio 4 | Good for pledging yourself to action |
Let all creation praise website – well worth visiting. Please go there.
Season of creation – Songs- – Habel Hymns Volume One- Songs for Celebrating with Creation
Let All Creation Praise links to more hymns you can use
Let All Creation Praise links to more hymns you can use