I do feel quite tranquil and at peace in nature. I'm also awed. But I think it's more in awe of the emergent qualities of the world, the way a few small things come together over time to make very complex things.
BTW,
Wikipedia wrote:
Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical world or material world. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. It ranges in scale from the subatomic to the cosmic.
So I think it's kind of ironic that you feel 'close to god'.
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