John Galsworthy wrote: “It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.” What is Creator’s perspective?

This is a perfect description of the inner yearning for divinity. Beauty, as in the beauty of much in nature, exists because it is a divine creation you were similarly created to appreciate and be aware of. So that perception of the environment, with respect to it having many enticements and many thrilling experiences, brings you closer to us because all that is beautiful about nature is an act of love in our providing you with that loving nest to inhabit. Whenever you appreciate a beautiful day with a summer breeze, the sound of wind in the trees, the shimmering of the leaves in the light of an afternoon, and the aroma of the living things of the earth, will stir deep within you an awareness of divine love, and that will bring with it, inevitably, a kind of longing for us that is not thought out logically and with the intellect but a kind of instinctual awareness of the divine presence. That is why such experiences in nature are so notable and so rewarding, to be long remembered and recounted in literature again and again. In fact, novels are replete with descriptions about the current weather as a part of the storyline because your place within nature, and how it makes you feel, is always a kind of touchstone giving feedback about how you are doing with respect to what you have and what is missing that is deeply important somehow. Nature is a kind of substitute for being with the divine because it is the next best thing, other than the love of another human like yourself.