There must be a reason why on every culture, human beings have always been marveled by "trivial" things in nature like mountains, skies, stars, flowers...etc. My guess is this: Just like words constitute the thoughts of a human being; trees, mountains and skies are representations of the thoughts of nature.
The foundation of the human brain it's probably thoughts; We like to share our thoughts, we like to know what others think; After all, It's a way to know how other sentient being 'feel' and how their experience matches with ours. Sadly, we cannot share thoughts with any other animal and we can't know what other animal "thinks".
With nature is a bit different. Although we can't point what nature "is" (in the same way we can point a dog with our fingers), "Nature" manifests itself thru all that we can see; It must be implicit to human beings that everything nature creates is in fact a thought, a nature's thought. This is why the relationship between human beings and nature its so bonded. It's the only other thing that we can see what it "thinks".
This makes me questionate what human beauty really is: Everything on this earth is a nature's thought; There's perhaps no such a thing as a face/body not worth contemplating.
Nature was, indeed, what initiated religion, mythology and philosophy; we made up those things in order to explain nature. Those are, in fact, the earlier vestiges of human thought. Keeping this in mind, we might even say that Nature started human thinking.
To say that mythology or religion is the mother of all human thought is false, To say that philosphy is the mother of all human thought is also false; nature really is.
All being said, I’m still puzzled to see what an horrid mind nature can have sometimes.
