Spirituality is important as well. The Hindu viewpoint on nature, for example, is based on recognition that nature and its orders of life (such as trees, forests, and animals) are all bound to each other. Thus we can understand services of forests within the Hindu cosmology to include religious values. Other indigenous cosmologies involve a highly-important role for forests and other components of the natural world. Thus, indigenous belief systems have a major protective role in a culture's relationships with the natural world, and in nature's relationship with a
