Have you ever looked at a beautiful photograph of a scenic spot—or even better, been in such a place yourself—and felt impelled to praise God? St. Nektarios of Aegina explains what is happening in such a moment:
When the man of pure heart looks at the World of Nature, that is, at the sky, the earth, and the sea and at all things in them, and observes the systems constituting them, the infinite multitude of stars of heaven, the innumerable multitudes of birds and quadrupeds and every kind of animal of the earth, the variety of plants on it, the abundance of fish in the sea, he is immediately amazed and exclaims with the Prophet David: ‘How great are Thy works, O Lord! In wisdom Thou made them all.’