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You'll get as many answers to this as pagans you ask ...
Pagans don't worship trees and rocks and streams either.
We do honor the particular energies of these places and their essences and the variety of spirits which inhabit them. But not worship them in the sense you seem to mean here.
Pagans worship multiple dieties, just as the Christians honor their one god. The forms that the relationship to diety, the ceremonies of honoring and the times of such vary from tradition to tradition. There are pagans who, in addition to the many personifications of the gods, also offer reverence to "The One" ... or a primal creator energy which stands above the goddess and the god.
The pagan sense of the word "worship" also is different. It's not the unquestioning obedience of the Christianized version of the same word, but rather is closer in meaning to "offering with honor and respect." We do not need to fear our gods in order to love them.
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