Mark Vernon locates the sacred in the natural world:
[T]he moment you feel the landscape offering you something, rather than being there for the taking, is the moment you sense the world as gift. … [Roger] Scruton writes [in The Face of God]: "It is an attempt to see our relation to the world as we see our relation to each other – as reaching through the tissue of objects to the thing that they mean … finding subjectivity enfolded, as it were, in the world around us. If there is such a thing as the real presence of God among us, that is how his presence must be understood."
The Dish 