I have heard that Edmund Burke has said,
The imagination is moved to awe and instilled with a degree of horror by what is "dark, uncertain, and confused."
People also say some nice things about awe, pleasant sensations of awe.
Vastness's in nature that dwarf us, giving a feeling of how small we are.
Though Arthur Schopenhauer also talked of small objects capable of giving feelings of the sublime,
Such as how light is reflected off a flower.
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Science, Nature, Spiritual,
All seem broad definitions to me,
One's we're capable of using in slight different senses of the words.
Science can mean understanding, or 'use of that understanding.
Nature can mean objects apart from humans, or even include humans themselves.
Spiritual, even Materialists can use in their speech, though their meaning of Spirit might differ 'some, I think it is often similar.
Fighting Spirit, Spiritual Awakening,
For a Materialist, this might be more psychological and tied to the physical brain,
But end result of understanding what that fighting Spirit or Spiritual awakening means in forward 'action remains.
From my own viewpoint (Atheist) (Materialist)
Nature is another part of existence, and it is existence that controls and is controlled by itself.
Since I'm a bit in the Science is part of nature camp,
I'd say the same of Science, controls nature, and is controlled itself.
Though here again we come to senses of words,
If I define 'everything as nature, than is a person capable of littering?
I'd say yes, that a subtle vague distinction is understood.
Elements seem part of nature,
Man makes dams,
Lights fires,
Sparks electricity,
Blows air,
'Seems like man controls nature to me.
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Can we control 'all of nature?
Doesn't seem quite that way to me,
I don't 'think launching a nuke at a hurricane would knock it off course,
But who knows what science will come to?
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But then there's bigger nature, stars,
Heh, though even those, man has made plans of how to control and make use of.
(Still fiction than 'achievable currently I think)
. . .
But ever vast nature grows,
And in my view ourselves part of it,
Seems hard to have 'absolute control.
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Of how I 'respond to nature,
Well, I've a sense of fear and nausea if too high up near an edge,
Though high up and not too close to an edge, can be a wonderous feeling.
Maybe if I 'practiced, I'd free myself of vertigo, but I've not practiced.
Nature, even in understanding,
Well, 'many instances, even in understanding,
Human emotion, psyche, can be moved,
By empathy, awe, fear, sadness, so on.
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Some situations it's only understanding that 'draws out those responses.
Heh, though others, it can be the 'lack of understanding.
The imagination is moved to awe and instilled with a degree of horror by what is "dark, uncertain, and confused." - Edmund Burke
