Experiencing overwhelming mountains explains the origin of nature worship.
Evidence
Here under its shadow one learns how naturally nature worship, and the propitiation of the forces of nature, arose in minds which had no better light. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 225
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Landscape ‘raising’ a person blends literal nurture with spiritual teaching — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 82
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- The Rocky Mountain sunrise moved even a hardened desperado to reverence. (similarity 0.79)
- Sudden mountain vistas reward the ascent above a forested ravine (similarity 0.78)