To him who in the love of Nature, holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language;...
The hills
Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun.
--_Bryant_.
Not vainly did the early Persian make
His altar the high places and the peak
Of earth-o'ergazing mountains, and thus take
A fit and unwalled temple, there to seek
The Spirit, in whose honor shrines are weak,
Upreared of human hands.... compare
Columns and idol-dwellings, Goth or Greek
With Nature's realm of worship.
--_Byron_.