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I have Chet Raymo's book, Climbing Brandon. The passage you've quoted below is from the last chapter of the book, "A Nest Beside Thy Altar." In an earlier chapter Raymo writes:
"...early Irish Christians did not have much truck with the miraculous, as evidenced, among other things, by that most remarkable book of Augustinus Hibernicus on the 'miracles' of Scripture. In some ways, Augustinus is closer in spirit to ourselves than to his contemporary theologians of the Continent. Closer to us in his admission of ignorance and in his sense that God acts within the nature of things and not in contradistinction to them...he wished to comprehend the world for its own sake; the universe for him was not a blank tablet on which God could write whatever he pleased, but an intricate living organism whose beauty and integrity were respected by its Maker.' "
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