In Lane's Landscapes of the Sacred, he has a chapter called "Liminal Places in the Evangelical Revival" which mentions the nature of God and His physical presence. He says that "God can never be comfortably contained in any one place."
This idea is one that is not new to most monotheistic religions. This is the idea that God is all around us and that no physical form could contain the power that is Him. The makes for an interesting question. If God is not something that can be located or found, why is it that so many go out into nature hoping to find Him? Do they think that they are somehow special and more apt at discovering the indiscoverable?
The answer I feel is that while God is not something that can be found and labeled, they essence of his power in nature is the best that we can ever hope to do. By observing God's creation, we can somehow connect with him through they beauty of what he has done, paying homage to his greatness by acknowledging it.
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