"Imagined Worlds" -- Peter Michalski

A paragraph in Making Nature sacred talked about how "even places we assume to be familiar remain on some plane of perception implacably strange." When living in a regular suburban area chances are that a place like the jungles or desert as exotic or different when really the backyard is just the same. We truly can't grasp an understanding of any landscape no matter how familiar or "normal" it is. Nature is incredible this way because no matter how advanced we become they only way we can begin to comprehend nature is on a spiritual level.